Vatican City, 12 December 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father, after receiving in audience Cardinal Secretary of
State Pietro Parolin on 7 December, provided for the institution of
the Pontifical Commission for the activities in the healthcare sector
of public legal persons of the Church. The following is the full text
of the document:
“The Holy Father Francis, in the
audience granted to the undersigned Secretary of State on 7 December
2015, having obtained the necessary information relating to the
particular difficulties of public legal persons of the Church working
in the healthcare sector, for the purpose of contributing to the more
efficient management of these activities and the conservation of
assets maintaining and promoting the charism of the Founders, and
until other provisions are made, has mandated the Secretary of State
to appoint a Special Commission for the purpose, entitled 'Pontifical
Commission for the Activities of Public Juridical Persons of the
Church in the Healthcare Sector'.
Therefore, the Cardinal Secretary of
State shall provide for the erection of the 'Pontifical Commission
for the Activities of Public Juridical Persons of the Church in the
Healthcare Sector', which will be governed by the following rules.
1. The principles and rules established
in the Apostolic Constitution 'Pastor bonus' and in the General
Regulations of the Roman Curia shall be applied to the Commission,
insofar as they are applicable and not incompatible. The Commission
shall adopt its own regulations.
2. The Commission shall be composed of
a President and six experts in the fields of healthcare, real estate,
management, economic and administrative issues, and finance. The
Commission shall be able to delegate part of its functions to one or
more Members and shall be assisted by a Secretariat.
3. With regard to the appointment and
term of office of the members and experts of the Commission, the
regulations governing the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia shall be
applied.
4. The Commission, which shall report
directly to the Secretary of State, may employ any legal action and
financial means necessary for the valid and correct fulfillment of
the task entrusted to it.
5. For this purpose the Commission
shall grant to the Congregations of the Roman Curia to which the
public legal persons concerned belong, the necessary permission,
binding for the concession of canonical authorisations for the
renouncement or reorganisation of assets and/or real estate related
to the healthcare sector. The Commission shall have powers of access
to documents and resources to permit it to carry out its activities.
The Commission may assign tasks to companies, professionals and
consultants.
6. The Commission is entrusted with:
a. the general study of the
sustainability of the healthcare system by public legal persons of
the Church (prerequisites, characteristics, constraints,
working/management methods, current objectives of the healthcare
system of individual legal persons in keeping with their nature,
mission and charism) so as to define a possible long-term operative
strategy also in relation to the principles of the Social Doctrine of
the Church;
b. the proposal for the resolution of
crisis situations in accordance with the results of the more general
study, activating all the resources possible in collaboration with
the Heads of the public legal entities concerned;
c. the study and proposal of new
operative models for public legal persons working in the healthcare
sector, capable of implementing the founding charism in the current
context.
The provisions herein are to be
considered stable and valid from the moment of their publication in
'L'Osservatore Romano'. Vatican City, 12 December 2015”.
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