Card. Angelo Becciu denies having committed any crime and denies having attempted to increase his family's wealth.<\/p>\n
CARD. ANGELO BECCIU<\/strong> During what was supposed to be a work meeting, the pope explained the accusations against him and asked the cardinal to resign. It was a tense 20-minute meeting.<\/p>\n CARD. ANGELO BECCIU<\/strong> As the number three in the Vatican, he had the authority to decide to which social projects to allocate funds. He chose this because it was for a project to create jobs in one of Italy's poorest areas.<\/p>\n He denies that the money went toward his brother and explains that the diocese hasn't used it yet.<\/p>\n CARD. ANGELO BECCIU<\/strong> Technically, Angelo Becciu is still a cardinal, but he's lost the rights and responsibilities of the role. For example, he cannot participate in a conclave.<\/p>\n He assures that his resignation has nothing to do with the suspicious investment in a London building using funds from the Secretariat of State.<\/p>\n The Vatican still hasn't given its account of the issue. The press release this Thursday evening simply communicated the incident.<\/p>\n Card. George Pell expressed approval of the resignation, which he includes in the pope's attempts to clean Vatican financial operations.<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<\/p>\n Translation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 25, 2020. \u201cThe pope told me he doesn't trust me. He's been misinformed,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2indj7_9DGo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bconferenzabecciueng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bconferenzabecciuint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cYesterday until 6:02 p.m., I felt like a friend of the pope, a loyal person who carried out the pope's orders. However, he spoke to me and said he no longer trusts me. He no longer trusts me because the magistrates told him I committed the crime of embezzlement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe said that when I was Substitute at the Secretariat of State, I authorized a donation of about $116,000 to Caritas at the diocese of Ozieri, and that supposedly, those $116,000 were transferred to an association my brother runs. In other words, he said I used those funds for a different end that favored my brother.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI don't know if it's a conflict of interests. Yes, of course it would have been better if I hadn't donated the money, but I did it to help the diocese, not my brother. Those $116,000 belonged to the diocese. I will let the Holy Father be the judge of all this. I hope that sooner or later he will realize that there's been a huge mistake.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n