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La mentira imperdonable del cardenal Becciu al papa Francisco que provocó su expulsión del cónclave

Angelo Becciu fue el primer cardenal juzgado y condenado por un tribunal penal del Vaticano por estafa y malversación. Entre sus delitos se encuentra el pago de sobreprecios en la compra de un edificio de lujo en Londres en 2014, donaciones que terminaron en mano de su familia y sobre todo el desvío del dinero del rescate de una monja colombiana que estaba en manos de Al-Qaeda.
Tras amenazar con hacer valer sus derechos como cardenal, Becciu cedió a la presión de sus pares y renunció a participar en el cónclave que comenzará el 7 de mayo para elegir el sucesor del papa Francisco.
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Según medios italianos, el cardenal tomó esta decisión tras ver dos cartas que dejó el papa argentino “que aprobaba la decisión de no dejarlo entrar en el cónclave”.
El cardenal Angelo Becciu fue condenado a 5 años y 6 meses de cárcel en 2023. (Fuente: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane).
Por qué fue condenado el cardenal Angelo Becciu
El derrotero de Becciu comenzó en 2020. Una poco clara operación inmobiliaria en Londres lo puso en la mira de la justicia.
El caso estalló con la compra de un edificio en una antigua sede de las galerías Harrods, en el exclusivo barrio londinense de Chelsea, una operación especulativa que creó un agujero en las cuentas de la Santa Sede de al menos 139 millones de euros.
El edificio en el centro del escándalo financiero del Vaticano. (Foto: Reuters/John Sibley),
Además, durante el proceso surgieron otros delitos financieros cometidos presuntamente por Becciu como las donaciones de 125.000 euros que el cardenal ingresó en la cuenta de una asociación, vinculada a la Cáritas sarda de Ozieri, que en ese momento presidía uno de sus hermanos.
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En ese entonces, Becciu era prefecto de la Congregación para las Causas de los Santos. Francisco le soltó la mano. Lo obligó a renunciar y le quitó sus privilegios. Finalmente fue condenado a cinco años y seis meses de prisión por delitos financieros.
Sin embargo, uno de los temas que más revuelo causó fue el desvío de un rescate de más de millón de euros que estaba destinado a la liberación de la monja colombiana Gloria Cecilia Narváez, raptada por Al-Qaeda en Mali en el año 2017.
Según se descubrió, 570.000 euros fueron a parar a una sociedad eslovena controlada por una asesora de Becciu, Cecilia Marogna, supuesta experta en seguridad y relaciones internacionales. El resto del dinero, la mujer se lo gastó en hoteles de lujo, viajes, ropa bolsos, perfumes y otras opulencias.
Qué dijo la exasesora de Becciu
En su defensa, Marogna sostuvo que en una entrevista con el diario Corriere della Sera que ofreció en 2015 a Becciu crear una “red diplomacia paralela en los países del norte de África y Oriente Medio”.
“Yo sabía qué hacer y cómo moverme, también para reducir los peligros para las nunciaturas derivados las células terroristas presentes en esos países”, explicó.

Cecilia Marogna, la ex asesora de seguridad del Vaticano. (Foto: gentileza El Mundo).
Respecto a que muchos de esos fondos se gastaron en artículos de lujo, la mujer lo justificó alegando que: “Quizás el bolso era para la esposa de un amigo nigeriano que pudo hablar con el presidente de Burkina Faso para vigilar los riesgos y peligros de las nunciaturas del Vaticano”.
“Con ese dinero hice el trabajo que me pidieron: entablar relaciones y contactos en países difíciles. Hice informes y análisis, siempre y cuando fuera pagado. No soy un estafadora”, dijo también al diario Domani.
Sin embargo, durante la investigación, se descubrió que Marogna no era ninguna experta en seguridad: su currículum era completamente inventado.
“En torno a esto hay muchas sospechas, pero es seguro que no había ninguna relación carnal entre Becciu y Marogna. Simplemente, ella es una mujer muy lista por la que se deja llevar», contó al diario El Mundo una fuente cercana a la prensa del Vaticano.
Becciu fue el primer cardenal juzgado por un tribunal penal del Vaticano. También fue condenado a inhabilitación “perpetua” para ejercer cargos en la Santa Sede, pero la sentencia se encuentra en proceso de apelación y sin condena efectiva. La nueva etapa del juicio comenzará en septiembre.
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WATCH: AOC leaves door open for 2028 presidential bid as campaign buzz soars

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., did not rule out 2028 presidential aspirations when asked by Fox News Digital about the viral video that had pundits guessing if she was soft-launching her campaign.
«I think what people should be most concerned about is the fact that Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now, and people’s healthcare is in danger. That’s really what my central focus is,» the New York Democrat said when asked if she was considering a run for president, despite President Donald Trump’s assurances that he wouldn’t cut Medicaid.
«This moment isn’t about campaigns, or elections, or about politics. It’s about making sure people are protected, and we’ve got people that are getting locked up for exercising their First Amendment rights. We’re getting 2-year-olds that are getting deported into cells in Honduras. We’re getting people that are about to get kicked off of Medicaid. That, to me, is most important,» Ocasio-Cortez said on Capitol Hill on Trump’s 100th day in office.
Ocasio-Cortez has crisscrossed the United States with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on the «Fighting Oligarchy» tour, and Americans have been speculating about whether the New York Democrat is launching a shadow campaign for president.
AOC CLAIMS ‘WE ARE ONE’ IN CAMPAIGN-STYLE VIDEO DESPITE YEARS OF INVOKING RACE, GENDER IN POLITICS
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not rule out a 2028 presidential bid when pressed by Fox News Digital but said her main focus right now is protecting Medicaid. (Fox News Digital)
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign account posted a video on X last week that invigorated those rumors as the four-term Democrat from New York City and a progressive leader proclaimed, «We are one.»
‘WE ARE ONE’: AOC CAMPAIGN VIDEO SWIRLS 2028 PRESIDENTIAL RUMORS
«I’m a girl from the Bronx,» Ocasio-Cortez said on a campaign-style stage in Idaho. «To be welcomed here in this state, all of us together, seeing our common cause, this is what this country is all about.»
FiveThirtyEight founder and prominent pollster Nate Silver signaled earlier this month that Ocasio-Cortez is the leading Democrat to pick up the party’s presidential nomination in 2028. In a draft 2028 pick with FiveThirtyEight’s Galen Druke, Silver chose Ocasio-Cortez as his top choice to lead the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket.
POLLSTER NATE SILVER CALLS OCASIO-CORTEZ MOST LIKELY TO BE 2028 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., arrives to speak during a «Fighting Oligarchy» tour event at Arizona State University, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
«I think there’s a lot of points in her favor at this very moment,» Druke said, adding, «Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has broad appeal across the Democratic Party.»
Americans have been reposting Ocasio-Cortez’s video across X, pointing to the video as proof of her 2028 presidential ambitions. «Get ready America. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will almost undoubtedly run for president in 2028,» political reporter Eric Daugherty said in response to the video.
SCHUMER SINKS, AOC SOARS IN NEW POLL AS LIBERAL VOTERS DEMAND HARDER LINE ON TRUMP
As rumors swirl over Ocasio-Cortez’s ambition for higher office, back at home in New York, a Siena College poll found Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s favorability is down, at 39% among New York state voters questioned in the poll, which was conducted April 14-16. Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez’s favorability soared to 47%.
The longtime senator from New York faced pushback from the Democratic Party in March for supporting the Republican budget bill backed by Trump that averted a government shutdown and stirred up outrage among congressional Democrats who planned to boycott the bill.
That growing disapproval among Democrats was reflected in the poll, and the shifting perception comes as DNC vice chair David Hogg, through his political arm, Leaders We Deserve, faced blowback from the DNC this week for investing $20 million into electing younger Democrats to safe House Democrat seats.

Gun violence survivor and activist David Hogg speaks at the March for our Lives rally against gun violence at the National Mall in Washington on June 11, 2022. (Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez raked in a massive $9.6 million over the past three months. The record-breaking fundraising haul was one of the biggest ever for any House lawmaker. Ocasio-Cortez’s team highlighted that the fundraising came from 266,000 individual donors, with an average contribution of just $21.
«I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of people supporting us with your time, resources, & energy. Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities,» Ocasio-Cortez emphasized in a social media post.
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Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo, a veteran of Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, said that Ocasio-Cortez appears to be one of a small group of politicians in his party who «are test ballooning a potential 2028 run for the presidency» as Democrats search «for a path out of the wilderness.»
«We’re not really sure who or what it will be, but one of the pathways there is to drill down on economic populism. There are many people that occupy that lane and she is one of them. And there’s clearly energy behind what her and Bernie Sanders did criss-crossing the country.»

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Colin Reed, a Republican strategist, said Ocasio-Cortez «shouldn’t be discounted» by Democrats «who are standing in her way» of running for whichever office she decides to seek — whether as a U.S. senator or president of the United States.
While Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders garnered plenty of national attention as they jetsetted across the country, Reed said their passion and energy might invigorate the progressive portion of the Democratic Party, but «her ideas are way too outside the mainstream to ever be electable at a nationwide level.»
«Ultimately, in a Democratic base there’s always going to be a percentage of voters who are drawn to that message. The issue they run to is it’s just not the majority of Americans. The majority of Americans don’t want to transform our country into some sort of ‘European-style government rules all’ vision. That’s why America was founded in the first place — to get away from oppression, from an overbearing, overreaching government,» Reed said.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders participate in a stop on the ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour at the Dignity Health Arena, Theater in Bakersfield, California on April 15, 2025. (Aude Guerrucci/Reuters)
As Democrats struggle to land on a consistent message and search for a clear party leader following Republicans’ November wins, there is an opportunity within the party to dominate the national Democratic narrative, Reed explained.
«Chaos loves a vacuum, and right now, there is a vacuum in leadership in the Democratic Party, and thus chaos is ruling the roost,» Reed said.
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«As long as those two are out there, they’re going to get attention because nobody else is doing anything. The house of cards will come crumbling down, especially when you’ve got two folks out there, Sen. Sanders and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, holding themselves out as climate warriors as they jet around the country on private jets spewing untold carbon emissions into the air. That hypocrisy is one that’s tough for a lot of folks’ stomachs,» Reed added.
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India’s Modi gives army freedom to act as tensions rise with Pakistan after deadly terror attack

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is giving the armed forces near complete freedom of action to respond following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region on April 22 that saw 26 people killed by terrorists. India and Pakistan have exchanged fire every day since the attack along the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir.
The Times of India reported on Tuesday that Modi has given the military the operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets, and timing of the response to the attack in Kashmir.
PAKISTAN FEARS INDIA INCURSION ‘IMMINENT’ AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS FOLLOWING TERROR ATTACK
Kashmiri villager women walk past the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials all is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Monghama village in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Modi is set to convene another meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday to coordinate India’s next moves.
Modi recently said India will «identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers,» in a post on X. «We will pursue them to the ends of the earth,» Modi added.
India’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters that the country has mobilized its forces because retaliation is «something which is imminent now.»
The Resistance Front (TRF), an extremist group linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack in Pahalgam. Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and is known to have links with the Pakistani military and a partnership with Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Pakistan has denied any involvement in the attack.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Rajnath Singh, left, party President JP Nadda, right, and Amit Shah, at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
The attack, which killed 26 people and was the worst terrorist attack on India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has increased tensions on the Indian subcontinent between two nuclear-armed powers.
«An Indian military response is likely reflecting the more muscular foreign policy of the Modi government as noted by its actions following previous terrorist attacks,» Chietigj Bajpaee, senior research fellow for South Asia at Chatham House, told Fox News Digital.
HERE’S WHY A FLARE-UP BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN OVER KASHMIR MATTERS
Bajpaee noted that a surgical strike or airstrike is the most likely form of retaliation, and the response will likely take a calibrated approach to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties and to control the escalation ladder in order to keep the conflict below the nuclear threshold.
«However, this is easier said than done given the possibility of accidental escalation» and a «broader tit-for-tat military escalation cannot be ruled out,» he warned.
Although there was limited outreach from Modi in the past, two rounds of escalation in 2016 and 2019 have soured relations.

Indian army officers stands guard near Pahalgam in south Kashmir after assailants indiscriminately opened fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sadanand Dhume, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital that Modi is facing pressure to mount a tough response.
«The Indian public is outraged by last week’s terrorist attack in Kashmir, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under immense pressure to respond to the atrocity by striking Pakistan, which has long sponsored attacks on India,» Dhume said.
INDIA VOWS TO HUNT TERRORISTS ‘TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH’ AS TENSIONS WITH PAKISTAN RISE AFTER KASHMIR ATTACK
Already India has suspended the landmark 1960 Indus Water Treaty, a key water-sharing agreement covering rivers that overlap both countries. Pakistan’s Minister of State for Law and Justice told Reuters that Islamabad plans on challenging India’s suspension of the treaty and is raising the issue with the World Bank.
Pakistan said the impediment to the free flow of water would constitute an act of war.

Supporters of the Pakistan Murkazi Muslim League party protest against the suspension of water-sharing treaty by India with Pakistan, in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, April 24. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
The rivalry between India and Pakistan dates back to the partition of the former British colony of India in 1947, with the establishment of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. The partition plan also provided the contested regions of Jammu and Kashmir with the opportunity to choose if they wanted to join either newly established nation. Kashmir ultimately decided to join India in exchange for help against invading Pakistani militias, with India and Pakistan fighting three wars over the territory since 1947.
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India and Pakistan have an estimated combined 342 nuclear warheads, according to the Arms Control Association.
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