UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis has a golden opportunity. Pope Francis made a huge mistake in betting on Cardinal Pell — a failed moral leader in Australia, seemingly with an insatiable ego and an incurable inability to be a team player. He has demonstrated his incompetence both in financial and moral matters.
Francis needs to replace him promptly — with a top female financial executive. This would show that Francis will do more than “trash talk” about his ineffective Vatican bureaucracy — he will act decisively as well. It will also show he is serious about women’s roles at least in the Catholic Church’s upper management. It is not necessary to be “ontologically changed” to read a financial statement correctly — something Pell seems unable to do, intellectually or ontologically!
For more on Pell’s “mortal sins”, please see below and also “Can the Pope trust Cardinal Pell?” here,
and “Rules Are for Schmucks: How to Succeed in Rome” here,
If Francis is not up to taking this bold step, he should at least replace Pell with Australian Bishop William Morris, who moved resolutely against a Catholic schoolteacher that serially abused students and against the school administrators that failed to discipline him. Bishop Morris put the interests of students and their parents first. He sacked the incompetent staff and he set about putting in place procedures to put right the errors that had been made.
Result: Ex-Pope Benedict XVI , with help likely from Cardinal Bertone and surely from from his ambitious henchman, Philly’s culture warrior, Archbishop Chaput, removed Morris as a bishop in May 2011, allegedly because of doctrinal and governance problems in the diocese.
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