Part of me has been disturbed by the possibility that there is more to this than the Pope was letting on.
Perhaps he realized that a major-league purge and housecleaning is in order. And at 85 and feeble, he is just not up to that task.
He isn’t strong enough to take on the money laundering at the Vatican Bank.
Italy took away their ability to accept credit cards.
They had to find a way around that...by finding a company in Switzerland that was not subject to European Law...rather than provide some transparency.