ROME – This week the pope’s chief of staff, Venezuelan Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, became the first Vatican official to testify at a trial in a foreign court, offering a detailed overview at London’s High Court of Justice of the Holy See’s actions in the so-called “trial of the century.”
Peña Parra, substitute in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, was called on Thursday and Friday to testify on behalf of the Holy See in a British civil proceeding brought against the Vatican by Italian financier Raffaele Mincione, and he is scheduled to do so again July 8.
Mincione was among 10 individuals, including Italian…
