Sorry
– or sorry for getting caught?
After
being accused worldwide, now the Holy See’s prosecutor general admits that two
cases of child pornography possession were discovered within the walls of the
Vatican last year, along with many other crimes according to an article in The
Guardian.
Gian
Piero Milano, the Holy See’s Promoter of Justice, said the Vatican was now
taking action against pedophilia in the heart of the Catholic church. So they
wait until they are caught or exposed before they announce “action” – mostly
the action consists of forming new committees to investigate the issue – as if
it is something new!
Of
course, Milano did not say who possessed child pornography although he had that
information. One pedophile was identified: former archbishop Josef Wesolowski, who
is facing charges. Wesolowski made headlines last year after he was accused of sexually
abusing young boys when he was the Pope’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
He is under house arrest while awaiting trial at the Vatican, -- the first sex
abuse trial ever held there. Why is it taking so long? Why don’t the Italian or
Dominican police have him locked up? What about all the known clergy sex abusers
not on trial? Remember, the catholic church has been policing itself for 2,000
years and it hasn’t had any effect on the crimes they commit.
The
Vatican is doing spin control since their other crimes are being exposed: drug
trafficking and money laundering. According to the Guardian, three drug
deliveries from South America addressed to the Vatican were intercepted last
year, including a packet containing cocaine-filled condoms worth $46,000 U.S.
The drugs were discovered at Germany’s Leipzig airport and sent to the Vatican
in the hope of catching the buyer. No one came claimed the package and German
investigators believe the recipient was tipped off about it. So our donations
are buying drugs for vatican criminals.
I
wrote about the banking scandals in detail my book (Smothered): 2010: Christian Science Monitor investigates Vatican
money laundering. American archbishop and bank head Paul Marcinkus was an
accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy following the disappearance of $1.3 billion
in loans that were supposed to be given to institutions in South America. Is
this how the vatican is helping the poor in other countries? They refuse to
open their accounting books to anyone so who knows where the money (and our
money) goes. The vatican, “surprised” by the investigation, plead innocent as
they always do when they get caught committing a crime. Italian investigators
froze 23 million euros ($33 million) in funds after finding odd and less than
legitimate vatican financial practices. The vatican bankers were “unable to
respond” to a series of requests about questionable money transfers of $1.5
billion from accounts in a short period of time.
The
Vatican bank has a history and culture as a criminal enterprise. In 1969, lawyer,
banker and Mafia don Michele “The Shark” Sindona ran the bank for his old
friend pope Paul VI. Sindona used the bank to launder the Gambino Mafia
family’s profits from heroin trafficking. By the late 1970s Sindona and his
banks were the subject of investigations by Italian judges, prosecutors and
politicians, several of whom were murdered. In 1986 Sindona, serving a 25-year
sentence for murder, was poisoned in his cell by cyanide in his coffee.
Does
this sound like an organization that you can trust with your money and your
children?
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