FILE PHOTO: New recruits of the Vatican's elite Swiss Guard march in front of the tower of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), the Vatican bank, during a swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A financial watchdog urged the Vatican on Wednesday to sharpen up its procedure for prosecuting senior clerics and hire more investigators with financial expertise.
In a 275-page report on efforts to protect the city-state against the scandals that have plagued it down the decades, the monitoring body of the Council of Europe was broadly positive, giving only one unsatisfactory mark among about 50 ratings.
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