ontinuing his reform of Vatican
finances, Pope Francis issued a decree on March 4 approving new norms
relating to the administration of the “goods,” mainly money, of the
causes for beatification and canonization of saints in order to ensure
full transparency and accountability in this area.
He took this decisive step after the
commission he set up in July 2013 concluded that there was little or no
oversight on how the considerable sums of money collected for a
particular cause were spent.