Thenamassivescandalbrokeoutinvolvinghundreds ofpriestsandvictims, internalcover-upsand the Church's admissionof the moving around ofaccused priests fromparishto parish.
Merging has proved hard enough for banks from the same country with vaguely similar internal cultures: witness recent bust-ups at America's newly formed Citigroup and at the equally new HypoVereinsbank, based in Munich.