Former economy czar Cardinal Pell warns the Vatican is facing major deficit
November 23, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: Because of “years of old-fashioned methodology, incompetence, and corruption,” the Vatican “is short of money,” said Cardinal George Pell, former Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy (2014-19). “That’s the primary reality at the moment.”
“We’re overspending every year for the last 10 years at least,” he added, as he spoke of “elements [at the Secretariat of State who] were hostile to any outside light on their activities.”
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