Dear Editor, Corriere della
the evening of July 18 has come out with a full-page title: "Fraud in the care of the sick. Monsignor arrested "and subtitled" The bishop lived in a house with sauna and original paintings. "
John XXIII Foundation, of which Don Luberto was president, was created to treat patients suffering from chronic infectious diseases and psychological problems. Despite having 450 employees, 363 patients were abandoned in the inspection of Finance, without any kind of assistance. The Institute for several months did not pay employees, not pay taxes insurance, increased its deficit despite the Calabria region corresponded to € 195.00 per day for each hospital, the Foundation had assets of around € 100 million, and patients should contribute to their maintenance.
The survey of the Financial Police was that Don Luberto would have implemented a "real plundering" the resources of the "stealing" from the coffers of the Foundation about 5 million €.
The reporter of the Courier reported that he lived in a luxurious apartment of Cosenza, with every comfort.
The "looting" would have been used over the years, at the expense of sick leave in total abandonment.
This painful episode, and others, thankfully not often, obliged to ask a question: church ensure enough on welfare projects made his name by dioceses and religious congregations, to prevent or punish abuses? In Cosenza in Calabria, no one knew what was happening for years in the Institute John XXIII? Who as a church had the task of monitoring?
Bishop rightly and wisely called upon all the priests of the diocese to publicly deplore the incident, hold times of prayer and reparation, including practical to express solidarity with the inmates, to urge more efforts for the works of the church to be witness of charity. But the scandal remains. You could prevent it?
the late 60's and early 70's, after some serious scandals have occurred in institutions for children operated by religious (Celestini of Prato), the Congregation for Religious urged the Italian Bishops' Conference to set up in each diocese the Diocesan Commission for Assistance (CDA) in order to improve the quality of training institutions and supervising the operation to prevent malfunctions and abuses.
In some dioceses, the Commission was established with good results in many other was never made or was not working, with the establishment of the Italian Caritas then do not talk about it anymore.
But the Italian Caritas is responsible for promotion of charity and coordination: the "prevailing pedagogical function," and "presents itself as the only tool available to officially recognized by the Italian Bishops to promote, coordinate and strengthen the charitable activities within the Italian ecclesial community" (Paul VI, Address the first meeting of the diocesan Caritas, September 1972). But not been given the tasks of supervision and control, probably because there were already the Diocesan Commission for assistance.
In general, the task of monitoring and control over what happens in the local church and on behalf of the church is certainly the bishop. But such tools have to do it? The Congregation of men had set out the assistance of diocesan commissions, then go into disuse, and the Italian Caritas has not been assigned this task. Consequence: the scandal of Cosenza.
Even the scandals may serve and help everyone involved to make a serious thought and have them appropriately.
is hard to think of reviving the Diocesan Commission for assistance, you should also provide adequate resources to operate. One possibility might be practical to give this task to Caritas, which has already culture, structure, right people and resources to carry it out.
The urgent thing is: you should not wait for another scandal to provide.
sac. Giovanni Nervo
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