IOR: Cardinal Parolin ( Secretariat of State) out of the Cardinals commission

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A story that has been curiously absent from most Catholic media sources!

IOR: Secretariat of State out of the Cardinals commission

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry...parolin-dallo-ior_it_5f81d2fac5b62f97bac35e6c
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"Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin (65) is no longer a member of the Cardinal Commission for controlling the IOR. The Pope’s decision was communicated on 21 September, three days before the “dismissal” of Cardinal Angelo Becciu who had given the go-ahead in 2014 (with the ok of his superiors, he has always defended himself). Parolin, who was appointed on 16 December 2013, therefore did not complete the two five-year mandate normally envisaged. He will be replaced by the Italian cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi archbishop of L’Aquila, who according to the usually well-informed Spanish periodical Religion Digitalhe could even be the next Secretary of State. The Pope also changed two other cardinal commissioners of the IOR, with the prefect of Propaganda fide, the Filipino Louis Tagle (considered as the dolphin of Pope Francis) and with the pontifical almsgiver, the Polish Konrad Krajevskj. Two choices that say a lot about the Pope’s will regarding the nature of the IOR, whose Statute was changed last year, and from which the complaint that in July 2019 started the investigation of the Vatican judiciary on the purchased building in London by the financier Raffaele Mincione.

The secretariat of state had in fact asked the IOR for a loan of 150 million to close the game, a request from which Becciu was called out in his latest self-defense, and which was rejected by the IOR management.

The Spanish cardinal Santos Abril y Castello (84) will remain president of the Commission of Cardinals.

Curiously, the news that had been published on the IOR’s website was not released by the Vatican, but late last night by the Italian bishops’ newspaper, Avvenire.
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"This is not the only news today while the on-site inspection of the Moneyval Committee of the Council of Europe is underway (the second after that of 2012). The Vatican Press Office has published fifteen folders of amendments to Law XVIII on financial transparency of 2013. The president of AIF, the Vatican anti-money laundering authority (and former Bank of Italy) Carmelo Barbagallo, in an interview with the Vatican media wanted to underline that the adaptation of the legislation of the Holy See takes place to make it compliant with the V directive of the European Union, in continuity with the action undertaken since 2009, after the signing of the Monetary Convention with the EU and the introduction of the euro of the small state. According to Barbagallo, “The opportunity was taken to transfer to this law the important progress made in recent years to make the supervisory activity more and more effective, above all through an intensification of the collaboration mechanisms between the various authorities concerned”. I am convinced - he concluded - that the changes made to this Law, as indeed all the regulations passed in recent years, will be able to demonstrate, both internally and to external observers, the firm commitment on an issue in which the Church takes an irreconcilable position ”.

The Moneyval inspection closes next Wednesday, then a document will be presented as a final judgment also on the “Core and Key” issues and in a few months we will know if the exam has been passed.

Receiving the inspectors in audience, Pope Francis said last Thursday that “your work is particularly close to my heart”. And that anti-money laundering legislation prevents you from getting blood on your hands by touching money."