THE POPE'S CORRUPTION PROBLEMS

摘要

The biggest financial criminal trial in the history of the Catholic Church, scheduled to restart October 5 in a makeshift courtroom in the Vatican Museums, has been carefully positioned as a critical moment for reform-minded Pope Francis. It's a chance for him to signal that no one is above the law, and he has a two-year investigation, a 487-page indictment and charges against a once-untouchable cardinal to back it up. So far, so good, at least in terms of a branding exercise, as the world's biggest media outlets breathlessly declare it a "landmark fraud and corruption trial" and the Vatican's "trial of the century."