When you contribute to pension management, as we pay with our contributions, the accounts should be available to everyone,” an association of Vatican employees said.

Pope Francis said on Thursday the Vatican's pension fund is facing a "serious imbalance" that may require changes to its operating structure, and appointed a senior cardinal to take over the fund's administration.

The Irish-born cardinal, who was bishop of Dallas for nine years before his transfer to Rome, has also been chair of the Pontifical Committee for Investments since 2022.

Pope Francis is warning that the Vatican’s troubled pension fund faces a “serious imbalance” and cannot guarantee future obligations without “urgent structural” reforms

Pope Francis, who has imposed a series of cost-cutting measures across the cash-strapped Vatican, warned Thursday that the city state's troubled pension fund needs urgent reform to guarantee future obligations.