Pope Francis on Friday
admitted that the Holy See was not immune from the plague of
graft.
"Corruption is in all the institutions, corruption is
everywhere, there's corruption in the Vatican too," the pope
said in response to a question from a young person during a
meeting at a stadium in Nairobi.
The Argentine pontiff has repeatedly spoken against
against corruption, including within the Church, since being
elected the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics in 2013.
The Vatican administration and its bank have been hit by
several scandals in recent years.
This month it was hit by the so-called VatiLeaks 2 scandal
and the related publication of two books using leaked Holy See
papers documenting alleged waste, mismanagement and lavish
spending by clergymen.
Among the cases to hit the headlines was the 2013 arrest
of prelate Monsignor Nunzio Scarano.
Scarano, the former head of analytic accounts at the Holy
See's asset-management agency APSA, is suspected involvement in
the laundering money through accounts at the Vatican Bank and of
trying to illegally smuggle 20 million euros into Italy for rich
friends.
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