The Vatican needs its own department of government efficiency.
No, this isn’t a suggestion that the next pope should be Trumpian or that a personality like Elon Musk should be ransacking the ecclesiastical offices in search of budgets to slash and agencies to gut.
Even so, the Vatican bureaucracy, like that of the United States government, is too big, sprawling, and unfocused, and its deficit spending is unsustainable.
God knows—and some of his believers do, too—how important doctrinal issues are, but this article is meant to address merely the governance and finances of the papal office and will not touch directly upon doctrinal controversies.
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