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During the course of the meeting on the history of the Vatican Press Office, the director also talked about the role of the Vatican’s communications consultant, Greg Burke and about financial transparency
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The scandal surrounding the cases of clerical sex abuse against minors and the developments in the Vatican’s finances are illustrative of the Holy See’s efforts to become more transparent: the Vatican’s Jesuit spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi said this in a statement this morning at a conference at the LUMSA University in Rome. The title of the conference was “Birth and development of the Vatican Press Office: From the Council to today”.
“Some recent events have been a real testing bench for greater transparency in the Church,” Lombardi said, mentioning paedophilia as a primary example and recalling the scandal which broke out in 2010, the pressure of the international mass media and the efforts of the Vatican Press Office to provide “unbiased information” in relation to the Holy See’s responses (the Pope’s speeches, new canonical laws, conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University).
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