VATICAN CITY
IOL
July 11 2013
By Steve Scherer
ROME – Pope Francis made it clear on Thursday that he would personally oversee reform of the troubled Vatican bank by attending the first meeting of an investigative commission he set up last month to shed light on its murky financial dealings.
“Francis wanted to be present to encourage the work of the commission,” the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said, adding that the meeting had taken place a day earlier.
The bank’s German chairman, Ernst von Freyberg, also attended along with prelate Monsignor Battista Ricca, who was appointed last month as an intermediary between the bank and the Vatican, the paper said.
The problems of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), as the bank is formally known, have multiplied even in the short time since the pope created the commission on June 26.
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