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Britain’s top Catholic cleric resigns after accusations of inappropriate behavior

By Anthony Faiola and Jason Horowitz / Horowitz reported from Rome. Eliza Mackintosh in London and Stefano Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report

Britain’s top cardinal accused of ‘inappropriate’ behavior with priests

By Anthony Faiola / Eliza Mackintosh in London and Stefano Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report

Pope struggled to lift sacred secrecy of Vatican finances

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Rome and Eliza Mackintosh in London contributed to this report

VATICAN CITY — Inside a 13th-century monastery in a sleepy village north of Rome, the Rev. Salvatore Palumbo was allegedly serving more than one higher authority. Italian prosecutors say a Ferrari-driving lawyer who defrauded insurance companies used the priest as a frontman, with Palumbo stashing the illicit cash inside the secretive Institute for Works of Religion.

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