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March 3, 2015

Rules for Vatican finance offices include protection for whistleblowers

Australian Cardinal George Pell, left, leads the Secretariat for the Economy at the Vatican. He will work with the Secretary of State and is in charge of supervising administrative and financial activities at the Vatican. This is part of a bigger picture involving new rules in the Vatican finance offices. The Vatican’s new financial rules went into effect March 1 and published the new statutes on its web site March 3.

VATICAN CITY - New rules governing the guidance, oversight and control of Vatican financial and administrative activities include the power to levy sanctions and take "civil or criminal action" in cases of "damage to assets," as well as providing protection for whistleblowers raising red flags about "anomalous activity."

Published in Vatican