Well, except that this is the Catholic Church, and as such there is - and should be - a preference for a prelate to head the office.  The issue, to me, is one of qualifications.  I have met some amazing accountants who are also clerics and religious, who run organizations with multi-million budgets with efficiency and transparency.  And remember, Mike, that we are talking about the pope's cabinet.  The focus here is that the US can ill afford losing +Cupich, or any of the pastoral bishops we have been fortunate to have gained thanks to +Francis.  The pope seems to know that one doesn't take Peter to pay Paul - although in this case it should be Paul to pay Peter!