VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Feb. 19, 2014
VATICAN CITY
The select group of eight cardinals advising Pope Francis on reforming the governance of the Catholic church have made a set of recommendations to the pontiff on how to restructure its central bureaucracy, especially financial operations, the Vatican announced Wednesday.
But the pope has yet to make any decisions on the matter and the recommendations will remain secret, said Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi.
The Council of Cardinals, Lombardi said during a briefing, “has worked intensely and drafted proposals and has taken … them to the Holy Father.”
“[The pope] will be the one deciding if those suggestions are to be taken and applied,” the spokesman said.
On Monday and Tuesday, Lombardi said the eight cardinals had been studying especially the Vatican’s troubled financial past, meeting with separate groups commissioned by the pope to study the Vatican’s economic and administrative structures and the Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank.
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