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CNA Staff, May 5, 2021 / 08:05 am (CNA). The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has confirmed a former management consultant as the Vatican’s auditor general. The Holy See press office said May 5 that the pope had named Alessandro Cassinis Righini, who has served as acting auditor general since June 2017, to the role. On his publicly accessible LinkedIn page, the auditor general lists the start date of his new position as March 2021. He succeeds Libero Milone, who served as auditor general from 2015 to 2017. Milone was dismissed just two years into a five-year mandate after being hired as the Vatican’s first auditor general in a move to introduce more financial transparency in the Vatican City State. ....
The Second Vatican Council and the promulgation of Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation in 1965 gave great impulse to the rediscovery of the Word of God. Given this impetus as well as a growing awareness of Scripture as a source of spiritual renewal, the Bible has in recent decades been steadily gaining the attention of Catholics. Catholics in our region of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have in the last 20 years or so been celebrating Bible Sunday annually in July – an event that the Bishops’ Conference of our region has entrusted to the Regional Biblical Commission to promote. For more than 20 years, an annual document or message has been produced, a diploma Bible course been devised and taught locally, and many initiatives at the diocesan and parish level have been promoted in order that Catholics will learn to love and live the Bible in their daily lives. ....