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Vatican reports good profit on investments and real estate as the pope tackles a financial crisis
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Faithful kneel in prayer proper to the start of Pope Leo XIV's Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Vatican City — July 28, 2025
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The office that manages Vatican investments and real estate reported a profit of 62 million euros (around $63 million) in 2024, up 16 million euros from 2023. It's one of the best results in years and a bit of good news as Pope Leo XIV begins to tackle the Holy See's longstanding financial crisis.
In its 2024 report, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, or APSA, said it had directed 46 million euros of the profit to fund the Holy See's operating costs. Some 10.5 million euros in profit came from good returns on investments, while its real estate profits equaled its 2023 results, the report said on July 28.
==The Vatican has been running a 50 million to 60 million euro structural deficit for years and is facing a 1 billion euro pension fund shortfall, a critical scenario that represents one of the greatest challenges facing Leo at the start of his pontificate.
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The Chicago-born math major, though, is said to have a head for numbers and his agenda in his first weeks in office has been filled with meetings of the Vatican's various financial entities==
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-reports-good-profit-investments-and-real-estate-pope-tackles-financial-crisis
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