Bertone’s apartment is owned by the Vatican, but was assigned to Bertone for his personal use after he retired as Pope Benedict XVI’s secretary of state in 2013. Sunlight gleams off the towering cupola of St. Peter’s, that Roman sunlight which already portends the arrival of spring. A cardinal of the Catholic Church, he served as Archbishop of Vercelli from 1991 to 1995, as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) was Prefect, Archbishop of Genoa from 2002 to 2006, and as Cardinal … The hospital, which was founded in 1869, by Duchess Arabella Salviati, on the model of the Hôpital des Enfants-Maladesis in Paris. Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone SDB (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian prelate and a Vatican diplomat. In 1924, it was donated to the Holy See.

History. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who held the Vatican’s purse strings under the previous Pope Emeritus Benedict, was said to have been behind the purchase of the block of flats in 2008. Read more Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is one of the key players in the drama created by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò with accusations against high … Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone claims pontiff's support after criticism over huge penthouse – but Francis's spokesman stays silent John Hooper in Rome Sun … Freemasonry in the Vatican No Room At The Inn Jim Shaw, the demitted 33rd degree Freemason, who resigned from Masonry after becoming a Christian wrote in his book The Deadly Deception: "there is underlying all Masonic thinking and writing, an attitude and spirit of elitism which says, "Masonry is not for everyone, just for the select few. Pope Francis is reportedly furious at the plans of a former senior member of the clergy, who hopes to retire in a palatial penthouse apartment overlooking Rome.
(Credit: Stock image.) Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 79, was secretary of state from 2006 to 2013 and briefly in charge of the Holy See and its administration when Pope Benedict XVI suddenly resigned last February. A shot showing the location of the remodeled apartment of Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, which is at the heart of a Vatican trial for financial crime.