AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Cardinal George Pell is the Vatican’s new ‘budget supremo’, saying he is honoured to take up the role to modernise the church bureaucracy to better help the poor and disadvantaged.
Pope Francis on Monday revealed that Australia’s most senior Catholic would become one of the most powerful men in the church, working in a new body with authority over economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and Vatican.
The shake-up – following a wave of scandals at the Vatican bank – is the first major overhaul of the church’s outdated and inefficient bureaucracy in 25 years.
The Vatican said in a statement that Cardinal Pell ‘has been asked to start work as soon as possible’ as head of the Secretariat for the Economy.
Cardinal Pell said in a statement he was ‘deeply honoured’ to have been appointed to the role.
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