Can Pope Francis really reform the Vatican?

[freshwest]

11. He's ordered zero tolerance and turning abusers over to the police. I read it on a thread here.

Said there would be no sheltering or shipping them to other parishes or even overseas as some notable ones were in the past. This is making waves that things have changed from the top down.

Someone who follows him closely and posts on him may remember better the thread it was on, but that stuck with me with I read it. Such statements indicates to me that he is in sync with most people who want this over with for good.

The financial aspect of the Vatican is supposed to be next on his list, IIRC. That is what enabled these priests to be maintained for years and hidden. So he can cut them out at the root.

I don't know how much of any of this will be in the public eye, though. I have read of priests being handed over to law enforcement recently, which was not the common practice.

This Pope appears to understand the separation of church and state much better than rightwingers in the USA.