Cardinal on trial protests query about sex life

The lone cardinal indicted in the Vatican’s big fraud and embezzlement trial has issued a formal protest to the court claiming the pope’s prosecutors had offended his dignity by suggesting he was having sex with a co-defendant. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, a one-time high-ranking official in the Vatican secretary of state, is the only defendant who has attended all hearings of the trial. The objection was the latest made by the defence about the behaviour of the pope’s prosecutors during their investigation, which began in 2019 over the Vatican’s 350 million euro investment in a London real estate deal.