VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
Not only the resignation of its highest-ranking operational directors, but also the revelations about the new “prelate” appointed by Francis. Having been made aware of them, the pope could revoke his appointment soon
by Sandro Magister
ROME, July 3, 2013 – Since the first of this month, the Institute for Works of Religion, IOR, has been at the center of a twofold storm.
Twofold because it is made up not only of the sensational resignations of the director general and of the vice-director of the controversial Vatican “bank,” Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli, but also of another scandal near the point of exploding, concerning the “prelate” of the IOR, Monsignor Battista Ricca, just appointed by Pope Francis.
As for the resignation of the two highest-ranking operational directors of the IOR, the statement that gave the news on the evening of Monday, July 1 says that “after many years of service both have decided that this action would be in the best interests of the Institute itself and of the Holy See.”
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