VATICAN CITY
Boston Globe
By John L. Allen Jr. | GLOBE STAFF JUNE 04, 2014
ROME – It’s a telling fact that there’s no exact equivalent in Italian for the English word “accountability,” because as linguists know, when a language is missing a word it’s often because the underlying concept doesn’t quite resonate.
This may be why in the Pope Francis era, the financial management of the Vatican is increasingly becoming an English-speaking enterprise.
The latest step in that direction came today, when an Australian Catholic business manager informed priests in his Sydney archdiocese that he has been named to head up a project management office in the Vatican’s new Secretariat for the Economy, created by Francis in February to oversee the financial clean-up operation.
Danny Casey, formerly the business manager for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, will join his old boss, Australian Cardinal George Pell, already tapped by Francis to head that secretariat.
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