Summary: <p>Author <a href="http://www.posner.com/" target="_blank">Gerald Posner</a> has been investigating the Vatican Bank for years and says every time we get a new pope, we hear more or less the same story: claims of wanting to reform the church's finances.</p> <p>But Pope Francis, Posner says, is for real.</p> <p>In advance of the pontiff's trip to New York City, <em><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/moneytalking/" target="_blank">Money Talking</a> </em>host Charlie Herman talks with Posner about his book <em><a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Gods-Bankers/Gerald-Posner/9781416576570" target="_blank">God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican</a>, </em>and how Francis is trying to reform the institution that has operated like an "offshore bank in the heart of Rome." </p> <p>And then, considering that New York City is a center of wealth and power, how will this pope balance the need to raise from money wealthy New Yorkers with his mission to make a church that is <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/16/us-pope-poor-idUSBRE92F05P20130316">"poor and for the poor."</a></p> <p> </p>
