UNITED STATES
NBC News
BY TRACY CONNOR
In his first year in Rome, Pope Francis’ comments on everything from gays to atheists have gotten most of the attention, but his aggressive efforts to reform the Vatican’s scandal-scarred financial apparatus show he’s not all talk.
“What has happened is nothing short of an earthquake in the internal governance of the Holy See,” said George Weigel, NBC’s Vatican analyst, who had a private, wide-ranging meeting with the rookie pontiff on March 1.
Robert Mickens, a Vatican watcher for The Tablet, the Catholic weekly, called it “the biggest structural change to the Roman Curia in nearly half a century.”
And Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest who is an analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, said it’s clear that Francis has gone “full-speed ahead and Vatican finances are going to get cleaned up.”
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