VATICAN CITY
Daily Mail (UK)
By ANEETA BHOLE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and AAP
The Pope has removed many of Cardinal George Pell’s administrative functions from his role as the Vatican’s key financial office.
Pope Francis essentially reversed a 2014 law that had transferred the main operational section of the patrimony office to the Australian cardinal’s Secretariat for the Economy as of Saturday.
In a slight to Pell, Francis says he’s removing the tasks because there needs to be an unequivocal and full separation between those who manage Vatican assets and those who supervise them.
Cardinal Pell, a critic of the Vatican’s financial wastefulness, assumed control in a bid to assert authority over different areas of the Vatican’s spending.
But overtime Francis has managed to trim his reach.
The announcement comes just months after Cardinal Pell appeared in front of a Rome royal commission into sexual abuse.
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