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In reply to the discussion: In bold move, Pope names panel to reform Vatican bank [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)10. The Woman is a Good pro-life Republican as while as a Harvard Law Professor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Glendon
If you expected anything else, you were dreaming. On the other hand I have NOT seen anything that says she is incompetent.
As a lawyer and an Accountant I do make the following comments
1. Lawyers as a groups do not do math well. If they could add 2 plus 2, they would have become engineers. Thus appointing a Lawyer to a Committee to investigate a bank in my opinion not a good sign. On the other hand , that she is a pro-life Catholic is a best a minor concern as to the Vatican Bank.
2. Cardiinal Raffaele Farina is a theologian (he is a Cardinal) and a Historian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Farina
3. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran is a diplomat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Tauran
4. Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, he is a Canon Lawyer
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baoc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_Arrieta_Ochoa_de_Chinchetru
5. Monsignor Peter Brian Wells, is the youngest of the group, another Canon Lawyer and Diplomat, but has some experence handling accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brian_Wells
You have a group of people who are use to dealing with people, Lawyers and Diplomats, but not people use to dealing with numbers.
If you expected anything else, you were dreaming. On the other hand I have NOT seen anything that says she is incompetent.
As a lawyer and an Accountant I do make the following comments
1. Lawyers as a groups do not do math well. If they could add 2 plus 2, they would have become engineers. Thus appointing a Lawyer to a Committee to investigate a bank in my opinion not a good sign. On the other hand , that she is a pro-life Catholic is a best a minor concern as to the Vatican Bank.
2. Cardiinal Raffaele Farina is a theologian (he is a Cardinal) and a Historian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Farina
3. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran is a diplomat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Tauran
4. Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, he is a Canon Lawyer
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baoc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_Arrieta_Ochoa_de_Chinchetru
5. Monsignor Peter Brian Wells, is the youngest of the group, another Canon Lawyer and Diplomat, but has some experence handling accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brian_Wells
You have a group of people who are use to dealing with people, Lawyers and Diplomats, but not people use to dealing with numbers.
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