Vatican, magistrates: “Disheartening, rotten predatory system and internal connivance”

“An almost inextricable intertwining between natural and legal persons; investment funds; financial securities – listed and non-banks and credit institutions of various types, breadth and transparency of action. Events specifically ordered and variously interested in drawing on resources economic aspects of the Holy See, often without any consideration of the aims and nature of the ecclesial reality “. The Vatican magistrates thus summarize, in the conclusions of the subpoena, the picture that underlies the events reconstructed in the almost 500 pages of the document. The papers also analyze “the role played over time and in different operational contexts by various subjects extraneous to the ecclesial structure – often improbable if not unacceptable – actors of a rotten predatory and lucrative system, sometimes made possible thanks to limited, but very incisive, complicity and internal connivance “, explain the investigators, underlining how the investigation led” the Office of the Promotor of Justice to the formulation of heavy and objectively disreputable charges, bringing out events that are far removed not only from the original spirit of the goods of the ecclesial community and to the common sensitivity and expectations but, with an eye to the present, also in relation to the current international standards followed in activities with an economic-financial content, also from an ethical point of view “. An outcome that they define as” disheartening “and “further compounded by the finding that most of the investment business carried out over the years by subjects of different training, status and responsibility in the Secretariat of State has taken place by draining large amounts of sums collected in the Pence of St. Peter “and therefore funds” intended for the successor of Peter “,” with the ultimate goal of sustenance of ‘His works of charity’ “, and” that only the Supreme Pontiff can freely direct and direct, intuitu boni Ecclesiae “.