..."When Gotti Tedeschi was named president of the Institute for the Works of Religion in 2009, he was widely touted as a reformer, the captain of internal financial reforms desired by Pope Benedict XVI. In the years since, however, complaints have repeatedly circulated that Gotti Tedeschi acted as a sort of absentee landlord, taking greater interest in his work with Italian banks and his own speaking and writing rather than his Vatican commitments.
Sources also described personal tensions between Gotti Tedeschi and the staff of the Vatican Bank, especially its director, layman Paolo Cipriani. Both men were placed under investigation by Italian authorities in 2010 for alleged violations of anti-money laundering protocols related to two transactions, though neither was charged with any crime.
Bridget Mary's Reflection: Where is the accountability to the Catholic community? Catholics in the pews should know that the Vatican Bank is under investigation for money laundering! This is our church and it sounds like the Mafia!
Today, another Italian paper, La Stampa, carried an interview with Anderson in which he denies that Gotti Tedeschi’s removal marks any retreat from a policy of transparency and good money management.
“We confirm our decisive commitment to transparency, which isn’t under discussion,” Anderson said. “But it requires good relations among the leaders of the bank. If there was a lack of transparency, it’s precisely what Gotti Tedeschi demonstrated regarding the board and the management of the institute.”
Among other things, Anderson said, Gotti Tedeschi “failed to perform his basic responsibilities, to inform himself about what the board was doing, and to participate in meetings.”
Anderson also denied that the move against Gotti Tedeschi was related to the arrest of a papal servant in the “Vatican leaks” scandal, or that it was the result of any pressure from higher levels of the Vatican.
Bridget Mary's Reflection: What role do the Knights of Columbus play in the Vatican Bank? What does Vatican Leaks reveal about the Vatican Bank?
“There was no pressure, and if there had been, we would have resisted it,” he said.
Also today, veteran Italian commentator Marco Tossati described the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi as the “first lay coup” in the history of the Vatican Bank. The four-member supervisory council, Tosatti wrote, effectively pulled the rug out from under the Vatican’s powerful Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who would have been inclined to find a compromise solution."
Bridget Mary's Reflection: How about bringing in the nuns to clean up the Vatican Bank fiasco?, I bet the U.S. LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious could partner with the global Sisterhood to provide a solid plan for reform and renewal that would focus on transparency and accountability? Cardinal Bertone would have no more worries. The nuns could do wonders to restore the trust of Catholics in the pews!
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I bet the U.S. LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious could partner with the global Sisterhood to provide a solid plan for reform and renewal that would focus on transparency and accountability?
The nuns can't even attract members to their orders because they've traveled so far off the reservation. What makes you think this old ladies club could accomplish anything?
You do your case no good when you describe those you disagree with as "old ladies". Do you really mean to imply that the truth of what someone says depends on their age and gender?
I merely meant to imply that the truth of what someone says depends on repeating it again and again, and....
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