MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has named former Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle as a member of an office in the Roman Curia that acts as the “Vatican’s central bank,” the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Tuesday.
The CBCP, on its news website, announced that Tagle was assigned as a member of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which, it said, “operates like the Vatican’s central bank.”
Tagle is currently the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which is in charge of the Vatican’s missions.
“APSA acts as the equivalent of a treasury and also oversees real estate holdings and othe…
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