Former Vatican financial auditor Libero Milone filed charges on Nov. 4 against the Vatican Secretariat of State, demanding the Catholic Church pay for damages to his reputation that he alleges followed his unceremonious firing in 2017.
At a meeting on Nov. 8 arranged by his lawyer, Milone told reporters that Cardinal Angelo Becciu, once the third-highest-ranking official at the Vatican, was “the mastermind of the so-called operation eject-Milone.”
Milone was hired in 2015 by Pope Francis to look into the notoriously convoluted and troubled finances of Vatican departments as part of continuing financial reforms begun by Pope Benedict XVI. Only two years later, the Vatican announced that Milone had resigned in the face of accusations of embezzlement and of spying.
As Milone was ushered out, Becciu told reporters that the auditor “went against all rules and was spying on the private lives of his superiors and staff, myself included.” Milone shot back, calling the cardinal “a liar.”
According to Milone, Vatican prosecutors have now relaunched an investigation into his tenure as auditor, along with his deputy. Milone has been called for questioning at the Vatican on Nov. 7.
The Vatican did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
On Nov. 8, the former auditor framed his firing as a battle between “the Middle Ages and modernity” and called out “the small mafia at the Vatican” that was offended by his findings of lapses in the Catholic institution’s finances, including “many cases of rule violations, improper predisposition of accounting records, incorrect registrations.”
Milone said he is ready to share proof of the financial mismanagement he said he witnessed at Vatican-owned hospitals and in the church bureaucracy. He and his deputy, Ferruccio Panicco, are asking the Secretariat to pay nearly 10 million euros for reputational and mental damages.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
48 replies on “SACKED VATICAN AUDITOR TO SUE VATICAN.”
It’s remarkable that the holy priests don’t reveal what’s going on behind the scenes. Strange, with their much vaunted moral compass you would think they’d be the first.
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10:22 they don’t practice what they preach, never have, never will. It’s not in the dna of the RCC.
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@1022pm. They seriously don’t care where the money comes from and they’ll destroy anyone perceived as a threat whilst presenting themselves as holier than thou.
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I say ‘well done him’ ! Sue the arse off them. Beccui and company are crooks. Of course they fire and maligned him. Because he knew what they were up to. Whom do you think any fair minded jury is going to believe ? Beccui et al or an independent fair minded professional auditor. Go figure ! He will win. Or they will settle. More like the latter because the z Vatican knows it’s crooked.
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The behaviour of Church members repeatedly highlights that they are self entitled control freaks with zero respect for dignity or privacy rights. They behave as if they “own” people when many of them could hardly be trusted to own a canine or feline.
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His deputy Ferrucio Panicco is also suing the Vatican for reputational and mental damages. Their joint claim is in the region of €10 Million euros.
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11:36 the Vatican & the RCC in general worldwide doesn’t care who it destroys, kids lives, the reputations of educated professionals such as these two Vatican auditors. Of course, the Vatican did not reply to several letters sent. The “usual” modus operandi by the HQ.
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9:41 don’t knock it because it works. The moaners and detractors of our church eventually have an accident or a mental breakdown. Problem solved.
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How many entitled, unaccountable, little Hitler clergy bully and get rid of parish secretaries, treasurers, parish council members who know a bit too much about what Father is getting up to and how he is spending the parish money ? Happens all the time in a parish near you, leaving the priest as a power craved omnipotent little shit who controls everything. Including the money. And no questions asked.
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8:40 they have two choices, they are either in on it or covering up for it and defending it. That would explain the actions of some support staff and volunteers.
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9:32 don’t feel sorry for them, they chose the RCC because they know it’s the safest place in the world from which to execute whatever level of negative behaviour or criminality floats their boat & the backup teams spring into action when any threat is perceived hence the appalling treatment this Vatican auditor and his deputy have been subjected to informing their decision to issue proceedings.
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Sounds like you have been caught red handed, mate. Your comment does display something of the ‘wounded and cornered animal’ syndrome.
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You’ve met Gates then.
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The crooks fearing discovery of their dishonesty were spying on the private lives of the auditor, his deputy and other staff.
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Still commenting on our Church? What does your Church do?
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The children of the world must be relieved people are looking at your ‘church’. Otherwise y’all would still be moving priests from parish to parish to rape children.
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11.18: Pat’s Oratory Church mightn’t be doing too much but – while I often vehemently disagree with his approach and style – we cannot but acknowledge the invaluable service he provides in uncovering the abuses, corruption, moral malaise, clericalism and hypicrisy of the institutional Catholic church. We need this probing, truth and accountability, thus the need for a forum like this blog.
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7:35pm Agreed, vital in view of ongoing and unresolved serious issues worldwide.
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Ha ha ha follow the money it’s always about the money!
Clergy always suck up to and would probably suck off the Diocesan Treasurer so keen are they to keep in his (rarely a her) good books!!
Are lay men or deacons ever the Treasurer?
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And here we go again, another day, another dollar in the ongoing defiant abuse of human rights demonstrated by the RCC from the very top to the very bottom of its corrupt cesspit.
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The first auditor general of the Vatican and his deputy are suing the Secretariat of State for $9.25 million in damages.
Libero Milone and Ferruccio Panicco are seeking compensation for loss of earnings, damage to their reputations, and emotional suffering.
Milone and Panicco told reporters this week they also would submit records documenting financial crimes by senior Vatican officials, including embezzlement of funds.
Before coming to the Vatican, Milone had been chairman and CEO of Italy’s Deloitte global accounting firm. He had also worked for the United Nations. He was appointed auditor general at the Vatican in 2015 and told to resign two years later.
Three months after suddenly stepping down in the middle of his five-year mandate, Milone said he was “threatened” into resignation by an “old guard” opposed to his work.
The Vatican responded with “surprise and regret” at this allegation, and Pope Francis used his 2017 Christmas address to criticize people who “betray the trust put in them” and “wrongly declare themselves martyrs of the system, of a ‘Pope kept in the dark,’ of the ‘old guard.’”
The man said to be responsible for the firing of Milone, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, told Reuters in 2017 that Milone “went against all the rules and was spying on the private lives of his superiors and staff, including me.”
Becciu is currently on trial for alleged financial crimes and was forced to step down in 2020 by Pope Francis. He maintains his innocence.
In May of this year, he pointed to Pope Francis regarding the question of removing Milone. In a court interrogation that lasted almost eight hours, Becciu told a prosecutor the pope had called him to a meeting in June 2017, where the pope claimed that he no longer had trust in Milone and therefore wanted Becciu to contact the auditor and tell him he must resign.
According to Becciu, the pope also expressed regret for entrusting him with “these thankless tasks.”
Milone in turn is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Vatican. Spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed to the New York Times that the Vatican’s prosecutor had an open file on Milone for embezzlement, “after a confidentiality seal was removed from the case.”
Milone’s former deputy, Ferruccio Panicco, accuses the Vatican of withholding medical records, allegedly thereby reducing his ability to seek treatment for prostate cancer.
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Corruption is everywhere in the UK with dodgy Covid deals and parliamentary expenses, even the sainted Ukraine where Oligarchs give their equivalents in Russia a run for their money, and America with dodgy Hunter Biden. So no surprise that it’s in the Vatican too.
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But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
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5:20 some very involved in church as present as being very much “of the faith”, they talking the talk but not walking the walk and using church as a cover.
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The RCC is a voluntary organisation. Don’t like it, don’t pay.
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Let’s pray for Milone’s safety and his mental health in the face of the hellish forces that will come against him.
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Amen
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I hope he is successful, if they don’t kill him before he can proceed.
They are completely untrustworthy, it is a worse task than taking on the Mafia.(They are the Mafia!)
VATICAN
Vatican auditors sue Roman Catholic Secretariat of State, allege widespread financial corruption
Former Vatican auditors say they have evidence of widespread financial corruption – and a new lawsuit will surface it.
THE PILLAR November 10, 2022 . 5:59 AM 14 min read
Libero Milone. Credit: Rai3 Report/Facebook.
Two former Vatican officials say their newly filed lawsuit will prove widespread financial corruption among both Vatican Roman Catholic cardinals and the Roman Catholic leadership of the Vatican’s national police force.
The former Vatican staffers say they were appointed by Pope Francis to get Vatican finances in order, and were fired when they discovered corruption, and saw Roman Catholic Cardinal Angelo Becciu falsely accuse them of spying.
Libero Milone, the first person to hold the position of Vatican auditor general, filed suit Nov. 4 against the Vatican’s Roman Catholic Secretariat of State, claiming he was unjustly fired and unfairly threatened with criminal prosecution, because of discoveries he made while doing his job.
The Vatican’s ousted auditor was forced from his post in 2017 under threat of prosecution for spying and misappropriation of funds, although there were three years left on his contract.
Milone and a former deputy are suing for more than 9 million euros in compensation for loss of earnings, damage to their reputations, and emotional suffering
Vatican auditors sue Secretariat of State, allege widespread financial corruption
Former Vatican auditors say they have evidence of widespread financial corruption – and a new lawsuit will surface it.
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https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/11/11/spiritan-priests-left-trail-of-abuse-in-canada-kenya-and-sierra-leone/
Spiritan Priests Left Trail of Abuse in Ireland, Kenya and Sierra Leone
Patsy McGarry Nov 11 2022.
“The late Spiritan priest Fr Patrick Hannan faced abuse allegations from his time while teaching at St Teresa’s secondary school for boys in Nairobi, Kenya. The Limerick native was a brother of the late Fr Gerard Hannan, who was an abuser at Blackrock College in Dublin.
On Tuesday’s Liveline programme “Stephen” (61) spoke of his abuse by Fr Aloysius Flood, Fr Senan Corry and Fr Gerard Hannan at Willow Park and Blackrock College in Dublin in the 1970s. A spokesman for the Spiritans told The Irish Times they had “no dispute with Stephen’s account on Liveline.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JhTNjSvxs
Francis’ Vatican filled with Corruption and Cover-up
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@ 3:45pm
Just what I’ve always said but you’s wouldn’t listen.
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Pat, an extraordinary low number of comments about an utterly appalling situation on our church?
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Because everyone has known the RCC is corrupt for centuries, we expect nothing less.
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4:25 Silence speaks volumes. 😏
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Well I commented on that- sensibly and maturely and the blog author obviously binned the comment.
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It’s downright dangerous to advertise how much we know because they will know how we know.
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@ 11.11pm I really should have put my glasses on as I misread enigmas and saw enemas instead. But perhaps societal and ecclesial enemas are just what is required for what they clear out.
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We must pray for our priests. It is not their fault that they behave so terribly; it is OUR fault for not praying and fasting and self-flagallating for them.
They are being sifted like wheat by Datan. He tempts them beyond their strength, because we are too lazy to help them! Our lack of charity is their crucifixion!
We, the laity, are the weak link. We, the laity, have abandoned our priests, bishops and cardinals. PITY THEM! They are struggling in all sorts of ways because of our selfishness. Do we give them enough prayer? NO!
Do we give them enough money? NO!
Do we make allowance for them when they fall? NO!
God will judge us HARSHLY for abandoning his sacerdotal souls.
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4:54: Are you serious?
If you are, and really believe in your comments, it goes to highlight the strength of initial religious indoctrination and subsequent reinforcement processes on certain personality types.
On the other hand your comment might be provocatively ‘tongue in cheek’.
I wonder.
MMM
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4.25: I was going to express similar comment earlier but I’m asking the same question. Why such a low number of comments? Could it be that the cohort of this blog are tired repeating the same reaction to abuse scandals? Or perhaps we may be immune to being shocked? Some of the good past commenters are no longer commenting. Each day two or three people make frequent comments, thus making the actual reality of commenters a smaller group. Or it may be that we are tired of Pat’s spin on all crises when he allows the blig on serious matters go all over the place. For example, when the issues of The Spiritan Colleges abuses were being discussed, some resorted to a queenie “bitchfest” with nothing to do with The serious issue of ABUSE and then we have Seamus the 8th or 9th or whatever, obsessing about Bishop Deenihan almost every day, boringly. We get his message. Pat, I believe on very serious moral issues you ought to be very discerning about some commenters. There are some too who quote long reams from encyclopaedias …and whose comments are way too long.
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Actually you get loads of comments when the subjects of polyester, lace and gay sex come up. So the few comments today reflects a lack of interest in the subject and a fixation on other things…
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People tend to be more interested is sexual than financial scandal – the bedroom not the boardroom.
Pope Francis has Peronism in his blood – he can play everyone, left, right or centre all day long.
Pope Francis is like an accountant you ask, ‘What’s two plus two’ and he responds, ‘What would you like it to be?’
Dark arts and shadows abound in the Vatican and Pope Francis would have you believe he is an Angel of the Light!!
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Every diocesan Treasurer is compromised and in too deep – especially Liverpool, Leeds, Westminster and Birmingham!!
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Rory Sheehan is leaving.
He told the congregation at mass tonight he is off after Christmas.
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Who is Rory Sheehan?
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https://bishoppatbuckley.blog/2022/01/01/is-rory-sheehan-down-and-connor-leaving-priesthood-for-boyfriend/
This gent. If he is leaving, it could well be the making of him. Staying for too many requires a cognitive dissonance which is harmful for spirit and mind.
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@ 10:13pm
Not before time, it’s a disgrace that he is being allowed to choose when to leave. he should have been dismissed long ago. When O when are these useless Bishops going to do their job. 🙄🙄🙄
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As a few have noted, the seizing and stubborn holding of the medical records of Ferruccio Panicco, who is plaintiff alongside Milone, was notably wicked. It meant repeating tests and delayed treatment beyond a point where his prostate cancer could effectively curtailed. Basically he believes, quite reasonably, that the Vatican sentenced him to death. Sec of State Parolin refused to release the records, a decision he hardly made on his own. Milone sees a corrupt police officer, Giani, as the most proximate cause or pretext for his department, having accused Milone of bugging.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/vatican-auditors-sue-secretariat-of-state-allege-widespread-financial-corruption/
A nest of vipers would be a friendlier, more noble place than the Vatican. The term refers to people of villainous intent, so therefore apt.
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