VATICAN CITY
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POPE Francis is publicly backing his new economy tsar, who is overhauling the Vatican’s administration amid grumblings from some Holy See bureaucrats about a perceived abrasive and secretive style.
Cardinal Pell, who in one of his last acts as the archbishop of Sydney appeared before a royal commission into child sex abuse in Australia, took over as head of the Vatican’s finances in Rome in March.
Pope Francis on Friday acknowledged Cardinal George Pell’s “tenacity” in calling the imposing Australian the Vatican’s resident “rugby player”.
The pope echoed Pell’s call for a new way of doing business at the Vatican in urging Holy See employees to embrace a “new mentality of evangelical service.”
“The path will not be easy and requires courage and determination,” he told members of Pell’s economy council, made up of cardinals and lay experts.
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