tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post4417243298663002321..comments2024-03-27T11:26:55.051-04:00Comments on Vox Cantoris: Sandra Magister reveals that George Cardinal Pell was "Demos"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-35504153408104124202023-01-13T02:02:31.344-05:002023-01-13T02:02:31.344-05:00I would be surprised if Cardinal Pell would not ha...I would be surprised if Cardinal Pell would not have signed this with his own name. <br /><br />During his interview with EWTN, he said a good thing about Benedict was that he "did his job as a pope". I found reading between the lines amusing. But Pell had never hidden his views, and he never hid that Pope Francis did not share them; indeed he asserted that Pope Francis respected him for his honest opinions, so it strikes me as odd that he would require a code name. White Pinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14297103062287771366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-7923324643725760802023-01-12T18:32:59.758-05:002023-01-12T18:32:59.758-05:00Google Translate translation of first section star...Google Translate translation of first section starting with (H):<br /><br />(H) The irruption of the Vatican gendarmerie under the command of Dr. Giani, in 2017, into the office of the auditor Libero Milone, in Italian territory, was probably illegal and was in any case intimidating and violent. It is possible that the evidence against Milone was fabricated.<br /><br />4. (A) The financial situation of the Vatican is serious. Over the past decade (at least) there have almost always been financial deficits. Before COVID, these deficits were around 20 million euros a year. In the last three years it was around 30-35 million euros a year. The issues date before both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict.<br /><br />(B) The Vatican faces a large pension fund deficit. Around 2014, COSEA experts estimated that in 2030 the deficit would be around 800 million euros. This was before COVID.<br /><br />(C) The Vatican is estimated to have lost 217 million euros on the Sloane Avenue building in London. In the 1980s the Vatican was forced to shell out 230 million dollars after the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. Due to inefficiency and corruption, the Vatican has lost at least another 100 million euros in the last 25-30 years, and probably several more, perhaps 150-200 million.<br /><br />(D) Despite the Holy Father's recent decision, investment processes have not been centralized (as recommended by COSEA in 2014 and attempted by the secretariat for the economy in 2015-16) and remain without expert advice. For decades, the Vatican has had to deal with ill-reputed financiers, shunned by all respected bankers in Italy.<br /><br />(E) The yield on the 5,261 Vatican properties remains shockingly low. In 2019, the average revenue (before COVID) was nearly $4,500 a year. In 2020 it was 2,900 euros per property.<br /><br />(F) The changing role of Pope Francis in financial reforms (incomplete but substantial progress in crime reduction, far less successful, except at the IOR, in terms of profitability) is a mystery and an enigma.<br /><br />Initially the Holy Father strongly supported the reforms. Then he prevented the centralization of investment, opposed reforms and most attempts to expose corruption, and supported (then) Archbishop Becciu, at the center of the Vatican financial establishment. Then, in 2020, the pope turned against Becciu and eventually ten people were put on trial and charged. Over the years, few prosecutions have been initiated from AIF infringement reports.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Section under "The Next Conclave":<br /><br />Se non ci sarà una correzione romana di simili eresie, la Chiesa si ridurrebbe a una vaga federazione di Chiese locali, con visioni diverse, probabilmente più vicina a un modello anglicano o protestante, rispetto a un modello ortodosso.<br />~=<br />Unless there is a Roman correction of such heresies, the Church would be reduced to a loose federation of local Churches, with different visions, probably closer to an Anglican or Protestant model than an Orthodox model.tagrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707772748537713419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-32647666999531606892023-01-12T09:34:08.245-05:002023-01-12T09:34:08.245-05:00Quo Primum 1570... Nobody needs "permission&q...<br /><br />Quo Primum 1570... Nobody needs "permission"... It's already been given. <br /><br />We give and grant in perpetuity that for the singing or reading of Mass in any church whatsoever this Missal may be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment or censure, and may be freely and lawfully used. Nor shall bishops, administrators, canons, chaplains and other secular priests, or religious of whatsoever Order or by whatsoever title designated, be obliged to celebrate Mass otherwise than enjoined by Us. <br /><br />Given at Saint Peter’s, Rome, in the year of Our Lord’s Incarnation one thousand five hundred and seventy, on the fourteenth day of July in the fifth year of Our Pontificate. Cybrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545791185995604994noreply@blogger.com