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Anonymous ID: 24b507 May 18, 2022, 8:42 p.m. No.16302165   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2175 >>2177 >>2189 >>2197

Cardinal: Pope ordered auditor to resign over spying charge

Nicole Winfield

08:22, May 19 2022

 

A Vatican cardinal testified on Wednesday that Pope Francis himself ordered the ouster of the Holy See’s auditor-general, turning the tables on a scandal that had sparked questions about the Vatican’s commitment to financial transparency and accountability.

 

Cardinal Angelo Becciu opened a second day of questioning in the Vatican’s big financial fraud trial by saying Francis had recently authorised him to reveal the details of Libero Milone’s 2017 departure as the Vatican’s first auditor-general.

 

He did so to clarify his previous testimony, during which he declined to respond to questions about Milone “out of love for the Holy Father”.

 

The Vatican announced on June 20, 2017 that Milone had resigned two years into his mandate, without providing details. His ouster, as well as the removal of PriceWaterHouseCoopers as Vatican auditors, had long been cited by Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s former financial czar, and others as evidence of possible shady dealings by Becciu and the secretariat of state and a step back in the Vatican’s efforts at financial transparency and reform.

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300592095/cardinal-pope-ordered-auditor-to-resign-over-spying-charge

 

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Anonymous ID: 24b507 May 18, 2022, 8:49 p.m. No.16302196   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Cardinal Bo: Organ trade is the new 'organised crime'

Decrying human trafficking, Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar sounds the alarm on the organ trade, calling it a new form of 'human cannibalism' producing billions in profits and exacerbated by wars.

By Deborah Castellano Lubov

18 May 2022, 16:57

 

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo says that despite great efforts against the scourge of this modern-day slavery, the spiraling conflict in places such as Ukraine and Myanmar, "infused a new and desperate urgency into this issue."

 

"This is an epoch of moral catastrophe," the Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, warned as he addressed the second day of the Santa Marta Group's meeting at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican's Casina Pio IV.

 

"The moral holocaust of commodification of human fragility rages," the President of the Federation of the Asian Bishops' Conference (FABC) stated, lamenting, "It happens in every country, in war zones, where millions are fleeing."

 

“While thousands are exhibiting poignant show of generosity to war affected, the heartless march trafficking wolves, masquerading as benign helpers rolls on.”

 

Pope Francis, the Cardinal recalled, has condemned human trafficking throughout his papacy, calling it repeatedly "a crime against humanity." Cardinal Bo said that being a Christian requires waging "a war" against the human trafficking.

 

The UN's International Labour Organisation estimates that human trafficking generates US$150.2 billion in illegal profits each year, the third biggest illicit economy in the world, next only to arms sales and the earnings of the drug cartels.

 

The three most common types of human trafficking, Cardinal Bo explained, are sex trafficking, debt bondage, and forced labour, also known as involuntary servitude. Forced marriage, forced begging, and forced reproduction, the Cardinal said, are additional agonies that escalate this crime.

 

New threat in medical services

He also spoke about "the horror" of emerging forms of "new human cannibalism," and cautioned that no country is safe from this "nefarious trade."

 

“Preying on the world’s most marginalised groups, criminal gangs traffic victims from 127 countries and export them as commodities to 137 countries. Even among them, children and women form a major percentage… One in every five victims is a child. Two thirds of the world’s trafficked victims are women.”

 

The Cardinal warned against "a new threat emerging from a surprisingly new sector: medical services."

 

Particularly exploited by this phenomenon, he said, are the most vulnerable people, especially in poor countries of Asia and Africa.

“Commodification of human body parts is a new feature of the global healthcare market.”

 

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-05/cardinal-bo-decries-human-trafficking-santa-marta-group.html