Cardinal Pell’s Office: New Books about the Vatican Contain ‘False and Misleading Claims’
The Vatican Secretariat for the Economy has said two new books, each containing leaked Vatican financial information, have “included false and misleading claims” regarding ”management of expenditure” and “expenditure incurred” by Cardinal George Pell, the Secretariat’s prefect.
In a statement issued this evening, the Secretariat has sought to correct the allegations made in the two newly-published books, Avarice: The Papers That Reveal Wealth, Scandals and Secrets in the Church of Francis and Via Crucis, by Italian journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi.
The statement says that the Secretariat for the Economy completed the year “well below its 2014 Budget and was one of the very few entities to propose a reduction in total expenditure in its 2015 Budget submission.”
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