Vatican raided

Vatican police have seized computers and files from a 500-yearold department that looks after the bricks and mortar maintenance of St Peter’s Basilica, amid the latest claims of financial skulduggery within the Holy See. Pope Francis vowed to clean up the Vatican’s opaque and frequently corrupt finances when he was elected in 2013. Officers raided the offices of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, which was founded in 1523 by Pope Clement VII, before the building of the basilica began.