VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The substitute secretary for general affairs in the Vatican Secretariat of State said Vatican officials 'were forced' into spending $17 million rather than an anticipated $2 million to $4 million to buy out an Italian broker over a London property deal.
'It caused me deep pain to find that we still had to give money for this affair,' testified Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, who serves as 'substitute,' the No. 3 position in the Secretariat of State, during a Vatican trial Ma