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29 November 2015

Cardinal George Pell locked in two-front battle at the Vatican

Cardinal George Pell is fighting battles on two fronts, one financial and the other in the realm of church doctrine, an area in which he managed to irk Pope Francis.
The Australian cardinal is attacked in two new books by Italian journalists as a "spendthrift moraliser" who spent €500,000 ($730,000) in his first six months as Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cardinal-george-pell-locked-in-twofront-battle-at-the-vatican-20151126-gl9bha.html