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Sparks between Bertone and the Brazilian Braz de Aviz. And the African Onaiyekan: a bank is not a dogma
Andrea Tornielli (Vatican Insider)
A wind of change blows on the Conclave. For the management of the Curia, for Vatican finances and for a new collegiality that can also function as a deterrent from the risk of a “private-sector-like” management of the Church’s assets. The last General Congregation, now on the eve of the conclave, has seen the return of the IOR, the “Vatican Bank”, as a protagonist in an exchange between cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Brazilian Joao Braz de Aviz. Even a long-time curial such as cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who in the Sistine Chapel will perform the functions of Dean, in taking the floor said that the Curia needs to be changed. While the Brazilian papable Scherer spoke in defence of the Curia.
The push for a new evangelisation, a principal point on the agenda for the new Pontiff and a central theme in the current discussions, cannot be separated from a reform of the curial structures, from greater collegiality or from a serious assessment of whether or not to keep an Oltretevere bank alive.
Vatican spokesman father Federico Lombardi said that Bertone “in concise form” spoke of the “nature of the IOR” and of the “procedure for the inclusion in the international Moneyval system” against money laundering. Lombardi also acknowledged the desire of several cardinals to see more clearly in regards to recent events at the “Vatican Bank” that, as of a few days ago, has a new president.
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