[fwdude]

Silver/metal polish - $500,000

[Kevmo]

My prediction is that this will be so much trouble that the Vatican will go back to its old ways.

[Fungi]

Read the following and see if anything will change. I do not think so. David Yallop, “In Gods Name.” “Marcinkus” is the key player.

[Alex Murphy]

A new Secretariat for the Economy will report directly to the pope and will be headed by Australian Cardinal George Pell, 72, currently the Archbishop of Sydney and a key proponent of financial transparency in a committee that advised the pope. A Church source said Pell would move to Rome. The auditor-general will have wide oversight powers "to conduct audits of any agency of the Holy See and Vatican City State at any time," a statement said.

The Secretariat, effectively a new ministry, will be headed by Pell and guided in policy making by a new 15-member Council for the Economy made up of eight prelates and seven lay financial experts "with strong professional financial experience" from around the world, according to the statement.

PFL

[Bigg Red]

Prayers up for success for the new initiative.