Commentary: LDS Church needs more financial transparency

MormonLeaks’ recent discovery of what looks like LDS Church-owned firms bearing stock-market investments valued at more than $32 billion is cause for renewed calls for financial transparency. Use of secret companies and reliance on a few lines from an accounting firm at General Conference are not good enough. Recently in my ward’s sacrament meeting, a speaker claimed that tithing is also used to relieve global poverty and hunger. No one corrected her, even though the church’s o