2 ex-Vatican hospital officials charged

Friday, July 14, 2017

VATICAN CITY -- The scandal was remarkable even by Vatican standards: The president of the "pope's hospital" for sick children had taken nearly a half-million dollars in hospital donations and used them to spruce up the penthouse apartment of the Vatican cardinal who had appointed him.

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