ITALY
Corriere della Sera

di FIORENZA SARZANINI

Luxury homes rented at rock-bottom prices, hotels and beauty centres run by private companies used as secret meeting places, property sales listed at lower prices than those actually paid: these all feature in the documents stolen by Vatican moles. There are also lists with thousands of names and addresses collected in order to “review” the criteria used for the management of real estate, especially that owned by Propaganda Fide. These lists of exclusive “clients” have attracted the interest of investigators looking into the use of confidential documents as the potential basis for blackmail and threats. This is also because it was Cosea, the commission set up to study the Vatican’s economic and administrative problems, that drew up the list of houses owned by no fewer than 26 institutions. At least four senior prelates have been interviewed in recent days, and it is…