National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin:
The Criminal Court of Rome has cleared a British Catholic layman of all charges concerning the acquisition of an 800-year-old monastery earmarked for use as a “gladiator school” for future politicians, to be headed by President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
After a four-year legal battle against the Italian state, a judge ruled that Benjamin Harnwell and his Dignitatis Humanae Institute, a political think-tank based in Rome, had in 2018 properly obtained a 19-year lease on the Abbey of Trisulti, a historic 13th-century former Carthusian charterhouse south of the Italian capital. Report is here.
