Pope Francis on Tuesday
apologised for corruption by Catholic clergymen, admitting that
the problem affected prelates in some cases.
"When we read in the newspapers that this person is
corrupt, that this other person is corrupt, that someone has
done this act of corruption and that bribes go here and there
and many things by some prelates, as Christians it is our duty
to ask forgiveness for them and ask the Lord to give them the
grace to repent, so they don't die with a corrupt heart," he
said.
The Vatican administration and its bank have been hit by
several scandals in recent years.
Among the cases to hit the headlines was the 2013 arrest of
prelate Monsignor Nunzio Scarano.
Scarano, the former head of analytic accounts at the Holy
See's asset-management agency APSA, is suspected involvement in
the laundering money through accounts at the Vatican Bank and of
trying to illegally smuggle 20 million euros into Italy for rich
friends.
The pope was speaking Tuesday in his morning Mass at the
Santa Marta guest house where he lives in the Vatican, having
spurned the space and comfort of the papal apartments.
He said that the corrupt kill and steal while "wearing
white gloves, from far away, without getting their hands dirty".
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