First specialists in ecclesiastical assets administration

Pope Francis says that "we must work to ensure that the assets of the institutes are administered with care and transparency, that they are protected and preserved, combining the charismatic-spiritual dimension with the economic dimension and efficiency, which has its own humus in the administrative tradition of the institutes, which does not tolerate waste and is attentive to the good use of resources". Under this necessary premise, the first class of the Specialist Degree in Ecclesiastical Assets Administration has graduated.

The director of the programme and Vice-Dean of the faculty of Cannon Law, Miguel Campo, said that “transparency, accountability, gratuitousness and training (professionalism) are vectors through which must flow a great ecclesiastical assets administration” and that is why “it is aimed to professionals”.

The graduation took place in the Father Martín de Nicolás hall at Alberto Aguilera and was presided by the dean of the faculties of Cannon Law and Theology, Father Francisco Ramírez Fueyo, SJ. The table counted with Pablo García González, director of the Postgraduate School and Lifelong Learning, and David Alonso de Linaja, responsible of Religious Institutions and Private Banking of Caixabank, and lecturer of the degree.

Brother José María Lana Arbizu, OFMCap took part with a talk called “El reto de la transparencia en la Iglesia” and Sister María Canel Ladrón de Guevara, RPM, with her talk “Planificación financiera y patrimonio estable”. For his part, the sponsor of the class, Vicente Rebollo Mozos, Bishop of Tarazona, and expert in ecclesiastical assets administration, took part with his presentation “Retos actuales planteados a la economía eclesial en España”.