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The work to transform the Curia and the IOR has begun

ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY

“So Your Eminence, did you get the job done?” Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose days as Secretary of State are numbered, knows that when Francis calls in person to check on the progress of a task he has set, there’s no beating around the bush. The cardinal usually has his audience with the Pope on Mondays. But a couple of days later, Francis calls Bertone himself – as the Vatican Secretary of State confided to figures close to him – to make sure that what was discussed is actually being put into action. Whoever thinks the Pope next door – who shows so much humanity and solidarity to those around him, bending down and hugging them during his audiences – has failed in his role as leader, is mistaken.

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