Pope Francis appointed Kevin Ingram, a retired partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (1990-2009), as a board member of the Financial Intelligence and Supervisory Authority.
Pope Benedict established the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority in 2010; ten years later, Pope Francis renamed it the Supervisory and Financial Information Authority.
A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 31, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Jun 8, 2022 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
This week at the Vatican finance trial, it was the broker Raffaele Mincione’s turn to be questioned. The responses of the Itali.
Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on April 20, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Apr 20, 2022 / 03:20 am (CNA).
To not honor the elderly as God commands, and to treat them as something to discard, “is a grave sin,” Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
During his weekly meeting with the public in St. Peter’s Square on April 20, the pope said “this commandment to honor the elderly gives us a blessing.”
“Please, care for old people,” he urged, “because they are the presence of history, the presence of the family. And it is thanks to them we are here. Please, do not leave them alone.”
Honoring the elderly is a form of love, giving life not only to those honored, but to those doing the honoring, he said.
For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pope’s Wednesday general audience was back in St. Peter’s Square.
The pope’s lesson focused on seven verses fr
Pope Francis opens the 93rd Judicial Year of the Tribunal of the Vatican City State, March 12, 2022. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, Mar 17, 2022 / 05:30 am (CNA).Opening the Vatican City State s judicial year on March 12, Pope Francis announced that there would be further updates to Vatican legislation "to strengthen the tools for preventing and combating crimes and respond to the growing demand for justice. which is also registered in our state."Pope Francis entire speech seemed to respond to criticisms that have been leveled at the Vatican judicial system in recent months. He defended his reform process and legislative activity, which have been quite peculiar so far. During the investigations leading to the trial over the management of funds in the Vatican s Secretariat of State, Pope Francis signed four rescripts changing the rules of the process.This step was an emergency regulation. But it has never been used so frequently in the 93 years of Vatican City State s existenc