‘Why cry about a crisis?’ — How Pope Leo’s changing the message on Vatican finances

The pope says he's not losing sleep over the budget crises, but his official diary suggests he's not taking it as lightly as he lets on.

Pope Leo XIV has played down the Holy See’s financial problems in his first papal interview, suggesting that “things are going to be ok.”

But while the pope has insisted he is not “losing sleep” over the curial budget deficit and pension blackhole, he has also undertaken a crowded series of meetings which indicate a more serious engagement with the issue…