KENYA
ANSA
(ANSA) – Nairobi, November 27 – 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.
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