“One of the most publicly exposed questions of this judicial matter is the following: were funds deriving from the Obolo di San Pietro used or not for the investments in question? My firm answer is: no! The obolation funds were not used, but the reserve funds of the Secretariat of State ".
It is a passage from the spontaneous declarations issued by Cardinal Angelo Becciu , during the new hearing of the trial against him in the Vatican .
"I AM INNOCENT" - During the hearing, the monsignor of Pattada reiterated "with force" his "absolute innocence", also dwelling on the hypothesis of embezzlement in favor of the Spes Cooperative of Ozieri run by his brother Tonino and claiming "the absolute correctness "of its conduct.
Angelo Becciu in fact underlined "how the only contributions object of the dispute, which are the only sums that were given by the Secretariat of State in the seven years, in 2015 and 2018, as documentedly proved, had a charitable destination".
" _ _ also - of my priestly dignity. I believe that this attitude betrays a similar treatment would have been reserved for a man ", his words.
"WORLD DREAM" - Becciu then denounced how "a public pillory of global proportions" was unleashed against him. “Even in Angola - he said -, where I had been nuncio for seven and a half years, I was told that the national TV devoted a week of debates to the subject; I was hit on the front pages of newspapers all over the world; deprived of any ecclesiastical office; relegated to the margins of the Curia and the Church. It grieved me and continues to grieve me , then, having exposed my family to a suffering as excruciating as it is unjust ".
CARDINAL PELL - And again: "For over a year I have been exposed to unbearable public pressure, with the shameful accusation of having even financed false testimony to the detriment of a confrere, Cardinal Pell , with money from the Secretariat of State. now sweep away this very serious insinuation with the words of the cardinal secretary of state, Parolin, who has ascertained and accounted for the absolute falsity of this ignoble and unbearable inference ".
(Unioneonline / lf)