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Vatican City, Oct 22, 2019 / 02:10 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn explained Monday that the final document at the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon will be written principally by a team chaired by the synod’s Relator General, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes.
“The word ‘drafting committee’ is not very clear, in fact, the drafts are from the principal relator and his team. The role of the drafting committee is to give immediate approval of the work the relators do. So we, the drafting committee, don’t write the text,” the Austrian archbishop said at a press conference held October 21 in the Vatican press room.
.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.
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In this file photo taken on March 27, 2020, Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi prayer in an empty St. Peter s Square, at the Vatican. If ever there was a defining moment of Pope Francis during the coronavirus pandemic, it came on March 27, the day Italy recorded its single biggest daily jump in fatalities. From the rain-slicked promenade of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis said the virus had shown that we’re all in this together, that we need each other and need to reassess our priorities. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)