View from Rome

Two days before departing for his visit this week to Chile and Peru, Pope Francis met Mgr Luigi Mistò, the number two official at the Secretariat for the Economy, a department set up to reform Vatican finances.

For more than six months there has been no cardinal leading the finance ministry.

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