FINANZKRISE IM VATIKAN
Benedikt XVI. plant nach gefühlt tausend Tagen Finanzkrise eine Enzyklika zum Thema - wie passend: Das Geldproblem erreicht gerade den Vatikan. Gottes Bankiers haben gepatzt, trotz erzkonservativer Anlagestrategie dezimierten sich US-Immobilienwerte und Goldman-Fonds.
Am 29. Juni, also neun Tage vor dem G8-Gipfel in L'Aquila und gefühlte tausend Tage nach Ausbruch der Weltfinanzkrise, wird Papst Benedikt seine dritte Enzyklika unterzeichnen. Sie heißt "Caritas in veritate", also "Liebe in Wahrheit", oder Gott in Wahrheit, when "Deus Caritas Est".
But that is not so important.
is crucial that they finally have. At least four drafts have already taken place, reports the newspaper "Il Foglio". The Vatican had economists, philosophers, political scientists questioned what was now to think of the market economy. No sooner had the spring of 2008 submitted to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in a final version, the markets collapsed, and in every talk show was preached moral economy. Since the Pope could work easily with his teaching message for the eternity of the past.
So he decided to let the crisis develop into something else. In the first part of the text is about the importance of natural law for the Catholic social teaching and the critique of the liberal-conservative thinking. In the second part, moral principles are designed to be safe under the conditions of global economic management of human dignity, poverty reduction, safety and ecology.
While it was disputed about all this, the crisis also knocked at the gates of the Vatican. The "Governorate of Vatican City" has its balance sheet for 2008 finish again with a deficit of nine million euros. In the previous year the figures were similar cardinals have been. This is not a reason to take up the next Bittgang stabilization fund, finally, the capital of the Vatican to 1.4 billion euros estimated
But it shows that God's banker 'the trumpets of the seventh angel had not heard. Despite the arch-conservative portfolio strategy decimated property values to remain silent in the U.S., not to mention the funds of Goldman Sachs, had believed in the Papal States. These increased expenses were for the safety of the Holy Father and declining donations.
Pope Benedict is about late April, shortly before the trip to Palestine, been informed of four Topkardinälen. (: "Spe Salvi" What he should have responded, to save expenses - no kidding, just.)
In any case, the finances of the Vatican's stand since then interest in the Apostles, and anyway in the headlines. The journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi has just published its study "Spa Vaticano" (Vatican AG "). In it, he assessed some 4,000 from the Vatican documents smuggled out of the "Istituto per le Opere Tues Religione (IOR) from, the private bank of the Pope. The IOR had been in the eighties in the center of a financial scandal, which is to slush funds, Mafia money and a London dangling from Blackfriars Bridge Went dead.
Pope John Paul II did away with the locusts being. It was believed. According Nuzzi cleaning up the IOR was much more difficult than previously thought. Even into the nineties have been made into such a secret account payments to the Christian Democratic Party, among others, Giulio Andreotti. Responsible for these accounts is, according to Nuzzo, Archbishop Donato De Bonis.
Secretary-General, Monsignor Renato Dardozzi was, incidentally, also the informant for the book "Vatican Spa. He had acted out of bitterness, they say. The IOR Dardozzi have a commission from a real estate business denied, with whom he would like to pay medical expenses for his ailing adoptive daughter.
Caritas in veritate.
Why is there a registry office in the Vatican, and why the crime rate is higher there than in São Paulo? And how do I get past the Swiss Guard? SPIEGEL ONLINE Vatikanist Alexander Smoltczyk has looked through the keyhole of the papal apartments and answered without mercy all the questions that dare not even other to provide: "Vatican Istan - A discovery of the smallest country in the world"
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