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Pope Francis calls in management consultant

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Pope Francis has called in a German management consultant to help him reform the Vatican administration.

Thomas von Mitschke-Collande, a manager of the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company, was recommended to the Pontiff after he helped to streamline the financial affairs of the Berlin archdiocese and the German bishops’ conference.

Last year he published a book whose title can be translated as Does the Catholic Church want to destroy itself? or Is the Catholic Church going out of business?

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Tags: management consultant, McKinsey, Pope Francis, Reform, Thomas von Mitschke-Collande

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