Posted on 11/24/2022 6:42:53 PM PST by marshmallow
An Italian court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Cardinal Angelo Becciu which alleged that unfavorable media coverage cost him his chance to be pope.
An Italian court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Cardinal Angelo Becciu which alleged that unfavorable media coverage cost him his chance to be pope. After recent legal setbacks in two lawsuits, the cardinal is ordered to pay thousands in damages and court costs.
Italian journalists reported Wednesday that Becciu’s lawsuit against Italian newsmagazine L’Espresso has been dismissed in a civil court of Sanssari, in Sardinia. A judge ordered the cardinal to pay the magazine’s legal costs..
Becciu filed suit against L’Espresso in November 2020, weeks after he was sacked from his curial positions by Pope Francis and ordered to resign his rights as a cardinal.
The cardinal’s lawsuit claimed L’Espresso’s coverage of the financial scandal at the Secretariat of State had contributed unfairly to the pope’s decision to fire Becciu, damaged his reputation, and cost Becciu the chance of being elected pope in a future conclave. The cardinal had sought 10 million euros in damages from the publication.
Neither the full text of the decision nor the amount Becciu will have to pay in that case have been released by the court.
But the verdict in Sardinia is the second legal setback for the cardinal in as many weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at pillarcatholic.com ...
Denying the power of God.
Surely he has heard the saying, “he who enters the Conclave a Pope leaves it a Cardinal.”
I Corinthians 6 immediately comes to mind, but then as a cardinal Sr. Becciu would not be so sola scriptura.
How does a man who took a vow of poverty have money to pay off these judgements?
Being that the pope receives no salary, there are no damages.
…pope on a pizza!
Betch you coulda been Pope too.
I was just wondering that myself.
:-)
I coulda been somebody, instead of a cardinal...
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