VATICAN CITY
Europe Online
Vatican City (dpa) – A top cardinal has pledged to return 150,000 euros (163,000 dollars) after he was exposed in the so-called VatiLeaks 2 affair for having his retirement flat redone at the expense of a Vatican hospital for children.
Tarcisio Bertone, former no. 2 under Pope Benedict XVI, was said to have received 200,000 euros from the Foundation of the Ospedale Bambino Gesu to renovate a 300-square-meter penthouse inside Vatican walls.
“Cardinal Bertone, recognizing that what happened damaged the Bambino Gesu, has decided to help us, devolving the sum of 150,000 euros,” said hospital president Mariella Enoc, as quoted by the ANSA news agency on Saturday.
Her announcement came on the day Bertone‘s successor paid a pre-Christmas visit to the clinic‘s patients and staff. “What I can say is that the issue is being solved, or rather, has been positively solved,” Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said.
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