VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Register
by ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI/CNA/EWTN NEWS 07/03/2014
VATICAN CITY — On the second of four days of meetings, the council of eight cardinals discussed the management of the Vatican City State and of the Curia, including the so-called “Vatican Bank,” whose process of reform is ongoing.
Pope Francis, along with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is involved in the meetings with the group of cardinals he selected last year to help in Church reform efforts.
The Pope was present at the entire meeting Wednesday morning, having suspended his Wednesday general audiences for a summer break.
Although no document has yet formalized Cardinal Parolin’s membership in the council, Holy See Press Office director Father Federico Lombardi said, “Pope Francis told Cardinal Pietro Parolin he is a full member of the council, and so we can consider him fully a member of the council.”
Father Lombardi reported that, in these first two days of meetings, the cardinals discussed “three main themes.”
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