In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during press conference in Rome. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
History was made in the Vatican this morning when the trial against Cardinal Angelo Becciu and nine others on charges including abuse of office, embezzlement, fraud, money laundering, as well as interference in the judicial process and witness tampering, opened in the new multipurpose room on the premises of the Vatican Museums.
It was the first time since the creation of the Vatican City State in 1929 that a cardinal has been brought to trial by a civil court on penal charges in the Vatican. Pope Francis had issued a motu proprio, or decree, earlier this year that made it possible for cardinals and bishops to stand trial before a civil tribunal in the Vatican, from which they previously had immunity.
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