Edit: here we go again.
"The article as regards a discussion between the Holy Father and Cardinal Pell because of the costs of the Secretariat are completely wrong," he was said in a statement on Saturday by the Secretariat.
Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) The head of the Vatican's Secretariat of Economy, Cardinal George Pell, is resisting press reports about overspending on himself and under his authority. "The article as regards a discussion between the Holy Father and Cardinal Pell because of the costs of the Secretariat are completely wrong," he said in a statement on Saturday of the Secretariat.
The report about an alleged conversation between Pell and Francis was "pure fiction". The cost of the equipment of the Secretariat, which started work in March 2014, is open and accessible. Soon the authority with which currently twelve people were working, the Vatican Economic Council, will present its balance sheet in 2014. It is incorrect to assert that Pell lives the high life.
The Italian magazine "L'espresso" had reported on Friday on Pell's alleged excessive expenditure, among other things, the equipment for their offices and facilities, as well as clothing and flights in business class. Pope Francis had criticized Pell for his handling money, according to the newspaper. Accordingly the Australian has spent about a half million euros for the various items of expenditure since July 2014.
On Friday Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi condemned the reporting of the "L'espresso" as "unworthy and pathetic." On the website of the magazine it was, however stated on Saturday, "we stand by the information of the article and take back anything." (C) 2015 CBA Catholic News Agency. All rights reserved.
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It's a new vatileaks, the characters are always the same, but the director is changed, now in the new 2 church is springtime, none dare to criticize the curia and the boR,all of them are at their previuos seats, only one left, but this is another story, sorry, but card. Pell will give up, they're too much stronger.....
ReplyDeletethen start seriously praying and fasting for him that he be given the strength.
DeleteYou've given up, anonymous.
DeleteIf the Vatican lacks money, the Cardinal Pell may ask the german catholics to lend him a few "denari" since I was told that a german diocese, I don't remember which one, was richer than the Vatican itself.
ReplyDeleteBut beware, once the knot is tightened, the new modernist Church and its pope will have their seat in Germany.
Just watch who Francis criticizes and you will know who will lead the Remnant Church after the Schism.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I've given up, but I know very well the italian curia, please have a look at the pic of the bus on the way back from Ariccia, who's next to the boR, the former secretary of state, it's on OR....BTW I pray for Pell and Burke, if schism will be, I know whose side I must be on .
ReplyDeleteWhy are some bloggers trying to give Cardinal Pell the aura of a resolute and heroic defender of tradition? He was pretty useless as Archbishop of Sydney and is most likely a cardboard character otherwise Francis I wouldn't have picked him for his present position.
ReplyDeleteIsn't about time that sincere Catholics faced the obvious fact that their beloved church is at the highest levels riven with internal dissent in-fighting and deep disagreement on the fundamentals of doctrine. Moreover, this condition is not new, but Vatican II made it visible for the more astute of the faithful to see.
With all this rumbling of 'schism', we should ask ourselves, 'who cares'? This is not intended to be flippant but is the attitude produced when we witness the 'church of secular humanism' eagerly engaging with worldly agenda and openly scoffing simple piety and traditional feelings.
"Why are some bloggers trying to give Cardinal Pell the aura of a resolute and heroic defender of tradition? "
DeleteBecause I'm not.
"With all this rumbling of 'schism', we should ask ourselves, 'who cares'? This is not intended to be flippant but is the attitude produced when we witness the 'church of secular humanism' eagerly engaging with worldly agenda and openly scoffing simple piety and traditional feelings. "
Evidently you care, because you keep posting.
"He was pretty useless as Archbishop of Sydney and is most likely a cardboard character..."
DeleteWell, he is a "cardboard character"...he denied the existence of Adam and Eve on a TV show with Richard Dawkins, and kept referring to the first two chapters of Genesis as "a sophisticated mythology"....and is emphasizing the word "sophisticated" made his rejection of the Bible all good. If you want video evidence, here you go. He appears about 10 minutes in to this video.
"and is emphasizing" was supposed to be "as if emphasizing"
DeleteDo you realize with whom you're in league in tearing him down now? He's standing strong on the marriage issue...the MOST pressing of the moment. For God's sake give him some cover, pray for his strength. He's not "the best" granted; but God is using him for a great good here, and the vatican slime machine sees and knows it. Do you really want to do their work for them? Stop ripping into him for one moment, and pray that God's work is completed in him.
DeleteYou can tell more about a person by who hates them, than by who loves them.
"simple piety and traditional feelings". You make both sound unimportant, To the Most Holy Trinity, Piety and Traditional Catholicism is Power. Not in the worldly sense. In my own opinion when I read that Cardinal Pell continued offering Solemn Pontifical High Mass's in the Old Rite, I figured he would get into trouble with the modernists. I wonder if I was right?
DeleteBTW, this is a really good piece on topic...
ReplyDeletehttp://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/02/hit-job-on-card-pell-because-hes-doing-his-job/
Did St Peter deny Christ (not once but thrice)? Did he strike out with a sword to earn Our Lord's stinging rebuke? Was he at the foot of the Cross when it mattered most? Did he irrationally become indignant when Jesus asked him 3 times if he loved Him? And yet, he was our first pope, personally handed the keys of the Kingdom by the sacred hands of Our Saviour, who dubbed him the Rock of His Church.
ReplyDeleteCard. Pell may not be perfect but he's still got a way to go before his "clangers" approach St Peter's.
Rather than focus on his past lapses (which do, admittedly, reflect poorly on him) why not marvel at the uncompromising strength of the man, putting his faith above any career aspirations (hardly the done thing in the Roman curia)?
Why, if I was a faithful Catholic (which I try to be) I'd almost be prepared to believe that there might just possibly have been some inspiration by the Holy Spirit! (Well, He did manage to convert a cowering St Peter in the twinkling of an instant into a rampaging bull who kicked down doors to tell the Jews he'd been hiding from what he really thought of them.)
May God bless and protect Card. Pell and other brave stalwarts of the faith like Card. Burke and Archbishop Schneider (who, incidentally, is so aptly named, it seems). The Church and the world needs men such as these at times like this.
The one and a half billion secreted away to make the church resemble the sham poverty Francis would like to claim, represents the very corruption and financial misappropriation that besmirches the post-conciliar church with systemic humbug and flagrant dishonesty. Indeed, an institutionalised disrespect for the truth which is common elsewhere within pastorally, liturgically and theologically.
ReplyDeleteThe post-conciliar franciscan papacy is characteristically Pell-Mele.
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