Pope Francis has chosen a Jesuit priest as the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Holy See. Father Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves is scheduled to take office in January 2020. Normally the head of such a top Vatican office would also be named a bishop, but the Jesuit Superior General, Father Arturo Read more
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Vatican’s $1.5 billion unreported assets disclosed
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
The Vatican has more than US$1.5 billion in assets that it didn’t previously know it had, bringing its total assets to more than US$3billion. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s secretary for the economy, told cardinals last week that $0.5 billion in assets had been purposefully excluded from a 2013 overall balance sheet. And US$1billion should Read more