Author Topic: Cutting Costs (Read 754 times)

poche · « **on:** January 15, 2014, 11:02:32 PM »

The Vatican has said it is cutting the costs of sainthood applications, which can reportedly spiral up to a million dollars (735,000 euros), in a move that could boost candidatures from the developing world.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, who heads up the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, was quoted by the Vatican's official Osservatore Romano daily on Wednesday as saying the change is aimed at removing "inequality".

Applications for sainthood can take years and costs include legal fees and travel bills for medical experts from around the world who are often called on to verify supposed medical miracles attributed to would-be saints.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis was cited by the Huffington Post as saying the price of canonisation campaigns range between $250,000 and $1 million -- with a lot of money coming from ordinary parishioners.

The price-tag means bids for candidates from the developing world have until now had less chance of success but the Vatican is now introducing a "fixed tariff" aimed at cutting costs, Osservatore Romano said.

Amato said he was also encouraging private donations to help finance the Vatican's investigations into applications in cases where the applicant's cause lacks wealthy allies who can sponsor the process.

Pope Francis has called for a less "Vatican-centric" Catholic Church that reaches out to the "peripheries of the world" and is planning a major overhaul of the scandal-hit Vatican bureaucracy and finances.

http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-cuts-sainthood-costs-boost-poor-160954246.html

OHCA · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2014, 12:01:09 AM »

Less Vatican-centric goes along with his apparent goal of destroying the very idea of the papacy & the Holy See. Dissing the conventions of the papacy, I'm just the bishop of Rome, and just call me frank, slyly come off to the gullible masses as aw-shucks humbleness, but what is actually happening is the papacy and the authority of the Holy See is being trivialized.

Also, by "filling Heaven" with a bunch of bogus "saints," he slams the ideas of true saints such as the fewness of the saved, reduces the significance of canonization, and has everybody expecting their chum Joe Smoe to be the next saint. Hmmmm... Maybe that's not such a bad idea if we can get Joe Smoe slated instead of Roncalli.

Back to his humbleness and dissing the conventions of the papacy--that's not being humble at all. How much more arrogant can somebody be to have the honor of attaining papacy, and then being "too cool" to accept the full tradition. How much more of an arrogant s.o.b. can one be than to say stick your tiara & red slippers up your ---, I'm too cool for that. Or more Phariseesque than to say come watch, photo, and write about how humble I am.

His less Vatican-centric is consistent with what the atheist reported that he said about clerics in that interview that the Vatican has since retracted as him being to mush-headed to have given a valid interview.

I'm not impressed by his less Vatican-centric approach nor his widening, smoothing, and paving a "broad path to Heaven" for a bunch of bogus saints.

Mabel · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2014, 12:27:26 AM »

Put 'em through the drive-thru at McBergoglio's! Everyone goes to Heaven and gets a happy meal with a prize! :rahrah:

Marlelar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2014, 01:01:20 AM »

Quote from: Mabel

Put 'em through the drive-thru at McBergoglio's! Everyone goes to Heaven and gets a happy meal with a prize! :rahrah:

:roll-laugh1:

Marsha