Vatican backs debt relief for poor countries as part of COVID recovery
- Jul 4, 2020
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Pope enacts new procurement law to combat deficits, corruption
- Jun 1, 2020
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.”
Opening salvos in Pope Francis’s financial ‘Reform 2.0’
- May 22, 2020
Pope Francis and his Vatican team this week have moved to try to defuse a financial bomb before it goes off, closing several Swiss holding companies responsible for portions of its assets and reallocating internal control over financial data collection.
Down the barrel of $158 million gun, Vatican reform is coming … but what kind?
- May 13, 2020
Change now is inevitable, no matter what sort of resistance the fabled “old guard” may put up, because the Vatican finds itself looking down the barrel of a $158 million gun.
Australian cardinal links corruption to child abuse charges
- Apr 14, 2020
Cardinal George Pell has linked his fight against corruption in the Vatican with his prosecution in Australia for alleged child sex abuse.
Why the Vatican might want to send a thank-you note to Australia’s High Court
- Apr 7, 2020
A close second in terms of who benefits from Tuesday’s acquittal of Cardinal George Pell is the Vatican, because the heavy lifting of evaluating the evidence has been done by someone else.
Australia’s highest court to rule on Pell’s appeal next week
- Apr 2, 2020
Australia’s highest court will deliver its ruling next week on whether to overturn the convictions of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse.
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