Vatican officials celebrate funeral for homeless man in Rome
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Cardinals Konrad Krajewski and George Pell and Archbishop Arthur Roche celebrate the funeral Mass for Roberto Molinari in the Church of St. Pius X, Jan. 25, 2021. (Credit: Paulina Guzik/Crux.)
Roberto Molinari was a cheerful man from Verona, a big fan of the Italian soccer team AS Roma, and was used to sharing a meal with one the cardinals closest to Pope Francis.
Roberto Molinari was a cheerful man from Verona, a big fan of the Italian soccer team AS Roma, and was used to sharing a meal with one the cardinals closest to Pope Francis.
Cardinal Pell: Vatican financial reform making ‘massive’ progress
Australian Cardinal George Pell is pictured in a screen grab addressing a Zoom webinar on transparency in the Catholic Church Jan. 14, 2020. Cardinal Pell said recent measures to centralize the church’s checks and balances represent “massive progress” in Pope Francis’ financial reform efforts. (CNS screen grab/Zoom)
By Junno Arocho Esteves • Catholic News Service • Posted January 20, 2021
ROME (CNS) While questions remain about dubious financial dealings in the past and about future uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vatican’s steady move toward financial transparency is on the right track, said Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.
.Carmelo Barbagallo, president of the Vatican s Financial Information and Supervision Authority, gestures during a July 3, 2020, interview in Rome. In Australia, people inside and outside the church are calling on authorities to get to the bottom of mystery funds transferred from the Vatican to Australia. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) .Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops conference, is pictured in an April 10, 2020, photo. In Australia, people inside and outside the church are calling on authorities to get to the bottom of mystery funds transferred from the Vatican to Australia. (CNS photo/Dan Peled, AAP Image via Reuters)
Carmelo Barbagallo, president of the Vatican s Financial Information and Supervision Authority, gestures during a July 3, 2020, interview in Rome. In Australia, people inside and outside the church are calling on authorities to get to the bottom of mystery funds transferred from the Vatican to Australia. (CNS/Reuters/Remo Casilli)
Sydney People inside and outside the church are calling on authorities to get to the bottom of mystery funds transferred from the Vatican to Australia.
As Australia s bishops are considering requesting information from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, a source close to the Vatican told The Catholic Weekly, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Sydney, that it was completely implausible that $2.3 billion Australian dollars (U.S. $1.8 billion) in Vatican funds transferred to Australia from Rome between 2014 and 2020 were legitimate.
Jan 1, 2021 catholic news service
This is the page design of Angelus News series with Catholic reflections on how 2020 was still a providential year. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Angelus News.)
With many so eager to put 2020 in the rearview mirror, one Catholic publication is saying: Not so fast.
WASHINGTON, D.C. With many so eager to put 2020 in the rearview mirror, one Catholic publication is saying: “Not so fast.”
It its last issue of the year,
Angelus, a weekly magazine of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, published a series called: “Saving 2020. How we found God in a troubled year.”
The series, updated online every few days at the end of December, at angelusnews.com, included personal essays from regular contributors and guest writers reflecting on how 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, was a providential year.