On Vatican Trial, Pope Francis Didn't 'Change the Law'

The Vatican City financial trial may have ended three months ago, but the PR battle over its results is still being waged.

Claims about the illegitimacy of the court, the trial, and the prosecutions’ methods have been a key feature of the trial from the moment it formally opened in July of 2022 — both from defense lawyers and in media comments from those sympathetic to the defendants, most especially the disgraced former papal chief of staff, Cardinal Angelo Becciu.

The most recent round of criticism came via a report published by AP on March 19, which repeated some of the most enduring claims against the Vatican due process.