{"id":28614,"date":"2013-10-01T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28614"},"modified":"2013-10-01T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:56:40","slug":"vatican-banks-annual-report-first-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/vatican-banks-annual-report-first-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Bank&#8217;s annual report, first ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ior.va\"><strong>The Institute for Works of Religion<\/strong><\/a> (aka, the Vatican Bank) has published the first annual report of its 125 year history for the year of 2012 and the first 8 months of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The goal<\/span>: to report to the universal Church its holdings giving a window of transparency, it contributes to the mission of the Church; the investors, and the public. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The IOR has<\/span>, in the past months, reached out to the media by engaging in an open dialogue, creating a new managed website, and given the published report on finances.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find a lengthy report on the IOR&#8217;s business activities and detailed financial statements, including one from the external auditing company KPMG and statements from various others.<\/p>\n<p>No new facts; the IOR is a conservative financial institution.<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ior.va\/Portals\/0\/Content\/Media\/Documents\/AnnualReports\/425x00sc399T!\/IOR_AnnualReport_E.pdf\">the report here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(it&#8217;s a 99 page .pdf).<\/p>\n<p>Father Bernd Hagenkord <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2013\/10\/01\/president_of_ior_explains_publication_of_first_annual_report\/en1-733246\"><strong>spoke with the President of the IOR<\/strong><\/a>, Ernst von Freyberg.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/media01.radiovaticana.va\/audiomp3\/00392761.MP3\"><strong>a 6 minute Vatican Radio interview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Works of Religion (aka, the Vatican Bank) has published the first annual report of its 125 year history for the year of 2012 and the first 8 months of 2013. The goal: to report to the universal Church its holdings giving a window of transparency, it contributes to the mission of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/vatican-banks-annual-report-first-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vatican Bank&#8217;s annual report, first ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[32092,3213,3214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28619,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614\/revisions\/28619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}