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Church Militant

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., MA.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • January 15, 2016

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Vatican official called the “Vatileaks II” financial scandal “misleading,” defending Vatican spending and rebuking those who leaked financial records to the press.

Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the Substitute for General Affairs — essentially the No. 2 official in the Vatican Secretariat of State — referred to the impression given by the leaked documents as “absolute falsehood.”

Becciu’s comments to Italian news magazine Panorama were released Wednesday, denying the depiction that the Vatican was a “den of thieves.”e

As reported by ChurchMilitant.com, the leaked financial records resulted in two books being written purporting to reveal financial waste and mismanagement of funds by the Roman Curia.