The Ordinariate has paid back a \u00c2\u00a31-million grant it received from the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament (News, 8 July 2011) after the Charity Commission ruled that the payment was “unauthorised”.<\/p>\n
The Commission announced the conclusion of its investigation of the grant yesterday. Its statement says that the decision to make a grant to the Ordinariate, a Roman Catholic body for former Anglicans, “was taken at an inquorate meeting, the majority of the trustees having a (financial) personal interest in the decision” and was “in breach of the charity’s governing document”.<\/p>\n
Since the meeting was inquorate, it says, the decision to award the money was “invalid. There was no valid exercise of the power to make a gift to the Ordinariate and the payment was unauthorised.”<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> and the Charity Commission case report is here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ordinariate has paid back a \u00c2\u00a31-million grant it received from the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament (News, 8 July 2011) after the Charity Commission ruled that the payment was “unauthorised”. The Commission announced the conclusion of its investigation of…<\/span><\/p>\n