If Pope Francis initially had at least some Vatican employees – especially those who are part of the Italian “old guard” – on tenterhooks when he first announced plans last April to make significant structural changes to their workplace, he has now sent many of them reeling by his first major reform – the establishment of a new Secretariat for the Economy. The move signals the dismantling of financial fiefdoms inside the Vatican that have long been managed, mostly by Italian cardinals and other prelates, with little outside oversight. Francis could not have dealt a more forceful blow to the old system than by choosing an Anglo-Saxon to head up the new department. And what a choice! The appointment of Australian Cardinal George Pell as prefect of the new secre