Vatican City, 5 December 2014 (VIS) –
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi,
S.J., today issued the following declaration in response to requests
for clarification regarding an article by Cardinal George Pell
published in the Catholic Herald.
“It should be observed that Cardinal
Pell has not referred to illegal, illicit or poorly administered
funds, but rather funds that do not appear on the official balance
sheets of the Holy See or of Vatican City State, and which have
become known to the Secretariat for the Economy during the current
process of examination and revision of Vatican administration, to
acquire a more comprehensive knowledge of the latter in view of the
planned rationalisation. It is indeed a sign and result of
constructive cooperation between the various Vatican institutions.
“Moreover, it was known and had been
previously explained, also publicly by the Prefecture of Economic
Affairs, that the consolidated balance sheets of the Holy See and
Vatican City State, presented every year to the College of Cardinals,
do not in any way encompass the totality of the numerous
administrations under Vatican auspices, but only the main
institutions of the Roman Curia and the State”.
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