Well, it affected me certainly I had always believed that, you know, in the presence of priests

everything would be transparent and truthful, and I discovered that this wasn't the case.

And I had great difficulty in believing the things that I was being told.

Some kept on telling me that I was asking the wrong questions, you know, and I once said to one Cardinal,

if you ask me tomorrow morning to say Mass, you know what, I't know where to start. I can attend Mass. I can

follow Mass. But if I had to organize a Mass, I wouldn't know where to start. Now you've

not been trained to be an auditor. How can you tell me how to do my work?

You said that to the Cardinal? Oh yes. How did he react?

I said you don't understand. I say I do understand.

A new scandal rocking the Vatican. A senior cleric has been arrested by Italian police

investigating allegations of money laundering.

A senior banking official in the Catholic hierarchy has been placed under investigation of the

Vatican Bank.

She said, quote, this is a true battle between good and evil.

In addition, the Pope will name an auditor general which will have access to all institutions

of the Holy See and the Vatican City State.

Hello, I'm Colin.

Hello, I'm Colinum Flynn, and I'm standing in the middle of St Peter's Square here at the Vatican in Rome.

You can hear the bells of St Peter's Basilica behind me.

And in this episode of Heart and Soul from the documentary on the BBC World Service,

I'm going to be talking to a man who once worked here at the Vatican

at the heart of the Catholic Church with a mammoth task.

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