Pope’s workers disown anonymous attack, but warn of ‘tension and dissatisfaction’

ROME – Amid concerns about possible labor unrest during the looming Jubilee Year, an association representing the Vatican’s lay employees has distanced itself from a recent anonymous media interview complaining bitterly about Pope Francis’s financial management, while nevertheless confirming mounting “tension and dissatisfaction” among the pope’s workforce.

The widely read Italian publication Panorama carried a Dec. 12 interview with a Vatican employee identified by the false initials “G.F.”...