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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Vatican bank rehires couple fired for violating workplace marriage rule

Vatican-Fired Couple Reinstated - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A married couple who had been fired from the Vatican bank for violating an internal rule barring workplace marriages has been rehired in a negotiated settlement, the union for Vatican lay employees announced Wednesday.

Silvia Carlucci and Domenico Fabiani filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in January, some four months after they were married. The union called the settlement “a victory of common sense,” though it did not say when they would resume working, or what their roles would be.

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