"The Vatican is at risk of financial failure": between bad moods and betrayals, as the revolution promised by Pope Francis has failed

The Vatican is at risk default. If by 2023 the accounts will not be restored Holy See could be overwhelmed by a financial crash. This is what emerges from the documents published in the new book by Gianluigi Nuzzi, Universal judgment, edited by Chiarelettere. A volume that, just like the previous ones written by the Journalist on the Vatican, it reveals backstage unpublished and to say the least disturbing of the lives of sacred palaces. A text that arrives while the Pope is struggling with the Synod special of bishops onAmazon that on 26 October 2019 he will be called to decide whether to give the green light to the so-called "viri probati". That is married men who are ordained priests without leaving theirs family. But also from the real estate investigation that swept the Secretariat of State and has already forced to resignation the now former commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie, Domenico Giani.

"The situation – explains Nuzzi – is definitely worsened compared to when Francesco's predecessor, Benedict XVI, decided to take a step back. All the parameters have fallen, for example toAPSA (Administration of the patrimony of the Apostolic See, ed) i parameters operating results show collapses of over 60 percent. But I believe that the Holy Father is determined to reverse the slope compared to what is not a wound but one hemorrhage. Such as? The tools he has are insufficient. In my opinion we are facing a collapse of the management of the Curia, the tools are old, they say i documents, still used transcripts manuals of numbers in the age of intelligence artificial, there is a fragmentation of the skills and there is inadequacy of the leadership, they say this themselves ".

According to Journalist "There is also a negative economic situation because of the offers have precipitated and it is evident from the cards the inefficiency of the management of the heritage real estate. At Apsa, for example, 40 percent give no income, a figure that would be unbearable for any type of finance. That announced revolution of the management of the houses it has not been realized ". For Nuzzi "the situation is such that recently, in 2018, it was decided to sell jewelry of family, sell for example at the gates of Rome, the property of Santa Maria di Galeria, 424 hectares, and the Pope said there was a reputational problemhe said, I am against speculative use of the territory aimed at the mere maximization of profits. Here comes the doctrine of the Church, the risk, the fear of reputational damage has led to to freeze that operation ".

There is not only one in the volume economy. Nuzzi succeeds in giving the reader a photograph of the climate turbid that you breathe in the Vatican. Dissatisfaction with the policies of Bergoglio, not only in the financial field, they created in the last years of the pontificate numerous moods e treachery on the part of the Pope's closest collaborators reconstruction that the journalist, always documents in hand, of the affair of fake letter of Benedict XVI. A story that led to the resignation of the first prefect of the Communication Department, Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, replaced by Paolo Ruffini, the first lay person at the top of a body of the Roman Curia.

"Dear Dario, unfortunately you did mess very big. I'm sorry. GG ”, writes Monsignor to Viganò Georg Ganswein, Prefect of the Pontifical House and special secretary of Benedict XVI. The reply is punctual: "But how? I read the piece on which we had agreed to exercises. This indeed shows how these people do not love Benedict and use him as flag. I'm sorry you think so. We did well i steps together and shared what to do. Why are you telling me this? However I am now towards airport but tomorrow I'll be back and if you think we'll talk. D ". To which Ganswein replies: "We will talk about it. The "handling'Of the photo of the letter has created trouble. This we have not agreed. Good travel, See you tomorrow. GG ". To the Pope and to the Secretariat of State Monsignor Viganò writes that he read the letter of Blessed XVI "In the agreed manner" with Monsignor Ganswein and adds: "It is obvious that if His Excellency had intervened to explain that none had been accomplished mystification would have closed the case ".

Nuzzi, through his legal, wanted to deposit to the promoter of justice of the Holy See the first copy of Universal judgment to evaluate whether the facts told in the book have criminal records. In 2015 the journalist was tried in the Vatican, together with his colleague Emiliano Fittipaldi, precisely because both had published two volumes with some documents reserved of the Holy See. After nine months of trial, both were acquitted by default of jurisdiction. On the eve of the first presentation of Universal judgment there was also who Oltretevere has raised a real "case diplomatic". In fact, the Italian Foreign Minister was expected among the speakers. Luigi Di Maio. An unwelcome presence in the sacred buildings that, according to some people close to Casa Santa Marta, the residence of Bergoglio, could even have undermined relations between Italy and the Holy See. The Di Maio staff has made it known that the head of the Foreign Ministry he will be absent because he is involved in the Council of Ministers. With all due respect to the Vatican.

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