AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times

June 9, 2014

Ben Doherty
South Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media

George Pell, the Catholic Church’s new finance tsar, has tapped the manager of the Sydney archdiocese’s finances to help clean up the Vatican’s accounts, which have been plagued by corruption and cronyism scandals.

Cardinal Pell, former archbishop of Sydney and now Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy in Vatican City, has appointed the archdiocese business manager, Danny Casey, to his office. The pair will work out of Saint John’s Tower in the Vatican, a building usually reserved for VIP guests or the Pope if his apartments are unavailable.

Mr Casey told priests in Sydney his office ”will be central to the establishment of new policies, systems and practices”.

Mr Casey’s abilities as a financial manager were revealed before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse earlier this year when it…