Giulio Tremonti, a former economy minister in Italy, said he was suing 30-year-old journalist Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a member of the new Vatican financial reform panel, over tweets she made claiming he is gay. Tremonti said he was also suing Alessandro Sallustri, editor-in-chief of Il Giornale daily that printed tweets by Chaouqui. Chaouqui has been Read more
Another controversy has broken out in Italy over one of Pope Francis’s appointments — this time laywoman Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a member of the new papal reform commission to study the Vatican’s economic and administrative structures. The 30-year-old Catholic, of Italian-Egyptian parentage, is a communications expert employed as a management consultant by multinational Ernst & Read more