In bold move, Pope names panel to reform Vatican bank

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10. The Woman is a Good pro-life Republican as while as a Harvard Law Professor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Glendon

If you expected anything else, you were dreaming. On the other hand I have NOT seen anything that says she is incompetent.

As a lawyer and an Accountant I do make the following comments

1. Lawyers as a groups do not do math well. If they could add 2 plus 2, they would have become engineers. Thus appointing a Lawyer to a Committee to investigate a bank in my opinion not a good sign. On the other hand , that she is a pro-life Catholic is a best a minor concern as to the Vatican Bank.

2. Cardiinal Raffaele Farina is a theologian (he is a Cardinal) and a Historian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Farina

3. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran is a diplomat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Tauran

4. Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, he is a Canon Lawyer
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baoc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_Arrieta_Ochoa_de_Chinchetru

5. Monsignor Peter Brian Wells, is the youngest of the group, another Canon Lawyer and Diplomat, but has some experence handling accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brian_Wells

You have a group of people who are use to dealing with people, Lawyers and Diplomats, but not people use to dealing with numbers.