VATICAN CITY
The Tablet (UK)
03 March 2014 14:27 by Abigail Frymann
The Pope’s newly announced finance minister has said that the working languages of the forthcoming Secretariat for the Economy will be English as well as Italian, a sign that the new Vatican department will be run as a global institution.
Cardinal George Pell, whom Pope Francis announced last week would head the Secretariat which will have authority over all the financial and administrative activities of the Holy See, said the Italian-dominated curia and his Anglo-Saxon appointment marked “two different ways of thinking”.
“It will be a change for some people who bring a different level of understanding and patterns of thought,” he told The Boston Globe. “There will probably have to be formation courses to explain what’s needed.”
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