God Working in Mysterious Ways at the Vatican

The Economic downturn is affecting everything. Even the Pope is cutting back. According to a report by Bloomberg:

“For the first time in almost half a century, Vatican administration staff will clock in for work as part of a clampdown on slackers, a sign that the global financial crisis has also spread to the world’s smallest state.

“Timekeeping was scrapped in 1960 under Pope John XXIII. Starting Jan. 1, the practice returns. All Holy See employees will be given magnetic badges and forced to clock in and out in an effort to track their movements and ensure they’re working a full day, said a Vatican spokesman who declined to be named.

“‘We can’t afford any waste,’ Bishop Renato Boccardo, secretary of the Governatorate of Vatican City State, told La Stampa newspaper. ‘There is a lot of work that needs doing, and the financial situation doesn’t allow us to hire more staff.’”

But, hang on isn't God supposed to be omnipresent and omniscient??? Don't all these staffers know that they can't escape HIS gaze while they nip off for a quick fag or a natter, whilst they are working on HIS time. And what about, God's foreman the Pope, has he lost confidence in his bosses supernatural powers and ability to call to account any slackers at that Great Disciplinary hearing in the sky, where you get no Trade Union steward to defrend your rights???? Or, perhaps the Pope thinks his boss too is slacking on the job!