October 17 2019
The 60 Sloane avenue building in London, which includes shops, offices and apartments, was once used by Harrods as a warehouse. It is now at the center of the latest financial scandal that is shaking the Vatican, potentially the worst since the days of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, whose pirate presidency of the Vatican bank in the 1970s and 1980s led him to deal with Freemasons and mobsters. Now, as then, there is not just the honesty of an individual at stake, but the reliability of the financial management system of the Holy See.