Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: By any standard Pope Francis' Brazil trip was a great success. Enthusiastic crowds clogged the routes of the papal motorcade and reportedly more than a million people were present for the pope's final Mass on Copacabana beach. The media no less than Catholic pilgrims seemed enchanted by the new pontiff and his appeals for dialogue, conciliation and social justice. 
  
 For this pope, who presents himself above all else as a pastor and teacher, the achievements of this first international foray must be satisfying. Now, though, it's time for Francis to put away his bags, step out of the international spotlight and tackle the job of administering the church of which he is the head. At this moment in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis can do more good working at his desk than waving from the popemobile. 
  
 For papal functionaries, the positive headlines from Brazil may have been especially welcome because they displaced several less edifying Vatican story lines. In June, Italian police arrested a priest working in the office responsible for overseeing Vatican properties and investments, charging him with conspiring to illegally move about $27 million from Switzerland to Italy. After the priest's arrest, the director and deputy director of the Vatican bank resigned and became objects of criminal investigations by the Italian police. Next the media turned to reports that a Vatican diplomat, recently appointed to a senior post in the Vatican bank, dispensed favors to a Swiss army officer with whom he allegedly maintained an inappropriate relationship. 
  
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 These stories are playing out against a background of persistent rumors of money laundering at the Vatican bank, of corruption in the award of contracts for various works and services inside Vatican City, and of vicious infighting among factions and cabals in the Vatican administration. 
  
 The problems confronting the Vatican have many causes, not the least of which is that for a long time no one has been minding the store. Although the modern papacy has never been the highly centralized, authoritarian, top-down organization of popular imagination, the "monarchical" model has been particularly discredited since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The image of the commanding Supreme Pontiff has been replaced by that of the softer, gentler Holy Father. Ministry has displaced management in the papal job description. 
  
 Like his immediate predecessors, Francis prefers to be seen as a simple priest and confessor rather than a busy administrator. The problem is that the papal office is multifaceted and requires a pope to be many things, not only a simple priest. Whether he likes it or not, the pope is also the chief executive of an international organization, and perhaps it's time that he start doing his job. 
  
 By forsaking their administrative responsibilities, recent pontiffs have allowed authority to flow down and out to the senior officials in the various congregations, councils, secretariats and commissions that make up the central administration of the Catholic Church and Vatican City. Without central direction, these offices have become semi-independent fiefdoms, each jealous of its powers and prerogatives. Without central oversight, they have evaded scrutiny and accountability. 
  
 If the Vatican is to be reformed and modernized, only the pope has the standing and the authority to make it happen. When the College of Cardinals met to elect a new pontiff, many prelates spoke on behalf of more transparency and accountability in the papal administration. 
  
 There are signs that Francis shares their concern. He has publicly commented on the need to reform the Vatican bureaucracy and, more important, he has moved, albeit tentatively, from words to deeds. In April he created a special commission of eight cardinals to advise him on reforming the Vatican bureaucracy. Right before the June arrests, he established a commission to review the activities of the Vatican bank and, in July, one to investigate the accounting practices of various Vatican offices. In the latter group, seven of the eight members are laypeople, including one woman. 
  
 Whether Francis has an appetite for the hard and often unpleasant work required to fix an entrenched bureaucracy remains to be seen. Commissions, after all, are well-known gambits to deflect attention and postpone action. The bigger question is whether Francis will be able to balance his roles as pastor and manager when the former role is, in many ways, so much more attractive. 
  
 It's clear that if Francis wants to meet challenges to morality and justice, he doesn't need to go on the road to find them. He can stay put at the Vatican and have his hands full. But will the Holy Father be willing to forsake the big stage, adoring crowds and fawning media for the lonely desk, stacks of files and constant meetings that today, more than ever, are an integral part of his responsibilities? If he can't, he may go down in history as one of the most popular but least effective popes of the 21st century. 
  
 David Alvarez is a professor of politics at St. Mary's College of California. His latest book is "The Pope's Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican." ||||| Prosecutors have wrapped up their money-laundering investigation into the Vatican bank and are focusing on the institute's two recently resigned managers, Italian news reports said Tuesday in the latest development to shake the Holy See. 
  
 FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 file photo, a building, left, which hosts the Vatican bank, formerly known as the Institute for Religious Operas, IOR, inside the Vatican. A Vatican official has been... (Associated Press) 
  
 Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli stepped down late Monday from the Vatican bank _ called Institute for Religious Works, or IOR _ amid a criminal investigation into the bank's operations that has resulted in the arrest of a Vatican accountant. 
  
 The Vatican said the two resigned to make way for a new leadership to "increase the pace" of efforts to make the Holy See's finances more transparent. That suggests Cipriani, as IOR director, and Tulli, his deputy, hadn't embraced the full scope of reform required to comply with international norms to fight money-laundering and terror financing. 
  
 Cipriani was placed under investigation in 2010 for allegedly violating Italy's anti-money laundering laws stemming from a routine transaction involving an IOR account at an Italian bank. The bank's then-president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was placed under investigation as well and Italian police seized the 23 million euros ($30 million) in the account. 
  
 Italian news agency LaPresse said Tuesday that prosecutors were expected to exonerate Gotti Tedeschi in the case, since he didn't handle day-to-day bank operations. But, according to LaPresse, prosecutors said they would likely seek indictments for Cipriani and Tulli. 
  
 It's not clear what charges they could face since prosecutors in 2011 determined the Vatican had put into place a suitable legal regime to prevent money-laundering and ordered the 23 million euro released. Tulli isn't believed to be under investigation in that case, suggesting that other accusations might be involved. 
  
 The Vatican has long denied any wrongdoing and said the 2010 investigation resulted from a mere misunderstanding. Gotti Tedeschi, in the meantime, was ousted as IOR president last May, though the reasons weren't related to the investigation. 
  
 Tuesday's developments capped a remarkable week for the IOR: It began with Pope Francis' announcement that he was forming a commission of inquiry into the bank to get to the bottom of the problems that have plagued it for decades. 
  
 It peaked Friday with the arrest of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a Vatican accountant, in a purported plot to smuggle 20 million euros out of Switzerland into Italy. Scarano was already under investigation for using his account at the Vatican bank for alleged money-laundering. 
  
 And it continued with Monday's resignation of Cipriani and Tulli from the IOR. Interim managers who belong to the Promontory Group, a leading firm in the fight against money-laundering, were appointed. 
  
 Despite the rough week, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano had some more lighthearted news to offer on Tuesday: Pope Francis' (at)Pontifex twitter account surpassed 7 million followers, combining the nine languages in which he tweets. 
  
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Student:
Pope Francis is a media darling, which is great for the Catholic Church, because otherwise reporters might look at things like the Vatican Bank instead. The bank's director and deputy director resigned July 1 amidst a criminal probe, after a priest was arrested for allegedly illegally moving $27 million from Switzerland to Italy, David Alvarez at the LA Times points out. Alvarez thinks one of the major reasons the Bank is so troubled is that "for a long time no one has been minding the store." Ever since Vatican II, "ministry has displaced management in the papal job description. The image of the commanding Supreme Pontiff has been replaced by that of the softer, gentler Holy Father." Francis is definitely in that latter mold, but if the Vatican bureaucracy is ever to be modernized and reformed, the pope has to take the initiative. "Whether he likes it or not, the pope is also the chief executive of an international organization, and perhaps it's time that he start doing his job." Click for the full column (or see a similar opinion ... published before Francis became pope.)