VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
VATICAN CITY, May 7, 2013 – For the Institute for Works of Religion, the IOR, the Vatican “bank,” no sort of “suppression” is expected. And of the pope’s advisors – those designated by him for this task, those who are so by office, and those who claim to be so by their own initiative – is asked the “highest discretion,” “silence,” and “prayer.”
This is the twofold message that Pope Francis wanted to issue both “ad intra,” meaning to prelates and cardinals who are bit too chatty, and “ad extra,” meaning to the media and banking circles that have a great interest, and perhaps interests as well, in the fate of the Vatican financial institute that manages “assets” of more than 6 billion euro.
The pontiff, however, did not do so directly, but left the task of “hatchet man” to the substitute of the secretariat of state, the archbishop – a diplomat and member of Focolare – Angelo Becciu, who spoke out in a self-interview published on the front page of “L’Osservatore Romano” printed on the afternoon of April 30 with the date of May 1, supplemented with two further questions and answers in the news broadcast of Vatican Radio on May 1:
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