Despite risks, Iraqis want Pope Francis to go ahead with visit
- Mar 4, 2021
Officials say the new rules, described as four years in the making, bring the Vatican in line with “the most advanced international legislation in the area,” including the UN’s 2003 Convention against Corruption. It’s also intended, according to a synthesis provided by the Vatican News Service, to “combat illicit deals and corruption,” as well to achieve significant cost savings though “economies of scale.”
A sweeping new law on procurement and contracts decreed by Pope Francis today amounts to a direct frontal assault on two cornerstone aspects of Italian, and, by extension, Vatican culture: Nepotism and feudalism.