VATICAN CITY
CathNews New Zealand
The Vatican’s finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, has expressed surprise at the suspension of an independent audit of the Vatican’s finances.
The Vatican’s Secretariat of State suspended the audit by international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers last week.
This is four months after the Vatican had announced PwC was to perform the audit.
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, said that the audit had been paused because there are “underway detailed studies of some aspects relative to the agreement” reached with the firm.
According to media reports, the problem was not connected to PricewaterhouseCoopers, which had just begun its work.
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