VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
(ANSA) Vatican City, July 4 – Pope Francis has had “free, frank and friendly” discussions with the C9 group of cardinals charged with examining reforms, Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Friday. The focus of the meetings this week, the fifth session since the start of the Argentinian’s pontificate, has been threefold: a presentation on the situation in the Governorate and the Secretariat of State, an in-depth look at the re-shuffle of the Vatican departments and the Institute of Religious Works (IOR) or Vatican Bank, Fr. Lombardi said. The cardinals expressed their esteem Thursday for IOR President Ernst Von Freyberg, amid speculation that he plans to resign from the bank, which is trying to make the white list of credit institutions with top transparency credentials “An English-language cardinal spoke of the ‘3Fs’ to describe the atmosphere in which the cardinals work with the pope,” Lombardi said.
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