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“It ‘s time to put our affairs in order so they can be shown to the outside world: the next wave of attacks on the Church might be for irregularities ‘financial’. It ‘as said Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat of Economy of the Holy See and the State of the City’ Vatican at the conference “Church and money,” the Meeting of Communion and Liberation.
And turning to church institutions, the Minister of Economy of the Holy See criticized the attitude of indifference to the economic issues, behavior which, according to Pell, “opens the door to the scoundrels and incompetents.” And in this context, also it includes “the moral obligation to strive for an appropriate level of financial performance” of church property. “Economic life today – he observed – and ‘more’ complicated than it has ever been.” “That’s why the canon law requires the presence of at least (Christifideles) three lay experts in every diocesan council for economic affairs.
However and ‘dangerous, morally wrong, the fact that a member of the summit of the Church, a bishop, a priest or religious superior is happy not care the least about how the money of the Church are used and say that ` He understands nothing of soldi’. This opens the door to the scoundrels and incompetents. A leader of the Church need not be an expert, but must be able to understand where there is’ something rotten (see a hole in a ladder) and give a realistic personal judgment that the money under its control to be used well. ”
“In the Vatican are trying to put into practice the Christian teachings on the property ‘, wealth and service to the poor and to those who suffer. Modern methods of control are good, and perhaps is the best way to ensure honest ‘and efficiency. This’ requires the need ‘to make use of experts to lay expertise and the adoption of the principle of transparency, to report to the community’, including the laity, what hierarchies do with the money of the church. ”
“If the Church has investments and property ‘, the authorities’ church have a moral obligation to seek an appropriate level of financial performance. If this target is not reached, it often means that someone else makes money. In one of my diocese a priest he leased a large building for a low fee and not reasonable. His tenant sublet part of the building for a sum greater than that paid to the pastor for the whole property. To lease properties that are given to administer to friends or friends of friends and ‘wrong, morally wrong. ”
As for the real estate, according to Minister of Economy Vatican ‘and’ prudent that the dioceses and religious orders possess their houses of worship and their schools: what ‘guarantees them security of continuity’. However, ‘and’ important that, for example, a parish priest does not treat the possessions of the Church as if they were his own “: because ‘assets inherited from the Church must be used to fund the good works of the Church. They must not be squandered in a single generation. ” A European princess – she said the Minister of Economy of Pope Francis – once told me that some looked to the Vatican as an old noble family that was going bankrupt, losing all his money: a way of making incompetent, extravagant and that makes them easy targets for thieves. In the Holy See we are all working hard under the guidance of Pope Francis, ’cause this will change. ”
“Transparency, mandate Francis’
All the cardinals before the conclave that elected Pope Francis asked for” better organization “Vatican finances and” making cleaning. ” “We are working on this” but “this reform would be absolutely impossible without the support of Pope Francis.” This was said by Cardinal George Pell, the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Holy See and the State Citta ‘del Vaticano, at the Meeting of Cl. To finance reforms in the Vatican, said Cardinal Pell at the end of his speech ‘and’ a very important commitment, above all at this time. ”
“In the conclave before the election of Pope Francis – he explained – the vast majority of the Cardinals have made it clear that we have to organize things in a better way, we have to clean things up, we have to have efficiency and transparency and we work for this”. “This reform – he concluded – would be absolutely impossible without the support of Pope Francis. Thank you for supporting our work. “
” We have made substantial progress – said Card. Pell -. We have an auditor general, a lay person of high level, which can go anywhere in our systems to see that things are going well and there is corruption. ” In addition, “we have our agency against money laundering.” These, according to the cardinal, “are substantial progress” although “there is much to do.”
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