Leo Creates Commission to Manage Padre Pio Hospital with €250m Debt
The commission will review the foundation’s finances, assets and operations to improve efficiency and ensure long-term sustainability, Vatican News said.
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Leo creates commission to manage Padre Pio hospital with €250m debt
Pope Leo approved on May 27 a commission to administer a Vatican-owned hospital founded by Padre Pio that allegedly accrued a €250 million debt.Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza. Image credit: Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, via Facebook.The pope signed a chirograph establishing a commission for the direction and oversight of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (House for the Relief of Suffering), a large hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo founded by …
The Relief House of Suffering in San Giovanni Rotondo is in a serious financial crisis, and doctors and employees have been protesting for months.
Founded by Padre Pio, who laid the foundation stone on May 16, 1947, the hospital grew to become one of the largest in the South but has long sailed in bad waters among the protests of doctors and employees
The control structure is entrusted to prominent figures of the Vatican. Objective: to clarify the ongoing disputes
Direct intervention of the Pope on the Foundation ?House Relief of Suffering?, to save the hospital wanted by Padre Pio to San Giovanni Rotondo who is shipwrecked in debt. We speak...
Pope Sets Up Commission to Tackle $290 Million Debt at Padre Pio’s Hospital
Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News The Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, founded by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Pope Leo XIV has established a commission to oversee the hospital, which is facing a crisis of hundreds of millions of euros of debt. The hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, where the saint known as Padre Pio lived for most of his life, has debts estimated to run between about $290 million to $350 million.
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