THE TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC FAITH
Sunday, 10 June 2012
WHO WAS BEHIND EMANUELA'S KIDNAP AND MURDER? WHY WAS ENRICO DE PEDIS BURIED IN A CRYPT NEXT TO CARDINALS' TOMBS?
The Catholic Church’s leading exorcist priest has sensationally claimed a missing schoolgirl thought to be buried in a murdered gangster’s tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties.
Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, who has carried out 70,000 exorcisms, spoke out as investigators continued to examine mobster Enrico De Pedis’s tomb in their hunt for Emanuela Orlandi.
Last week police and forensic experts broke into the grave after an anonymous phone call to a TV show said the truth about Emanuela’s 1983 disappearance would be ‘found there’.
And although bones not belonging to the mobster were recovered they have not yet been positively identified as hers.
However Father Amorth, in an interview with La Stampa newspaper, said: ‘This was a crime with a sexual motive.
‘It has already previously been stated by (deceased) monsignor Simeone Duca, an archivist at the Vatican, who was asked to recruit girls for parties with the help of the Vatican gendarmes.
‘I believe Emanuela ended up in this circle. I have never believed in the international theory (overseas kidnappers). I have motives to believe that this was just a case of sexual exploitation.
‘It led to the murder and then the hiding of her body. Also involved are diplomatic staff from a foreign embassy to the Holy See.’
Today there was no immediate response from the Vatican to Father Amorth’s claims.
But Vatican officials insisted they had always co-operated with the investigation into Orlandi’s disappearance – a claim that her brother has often disputed.
Father Amorth is a colourful figure who in the past has also denounced yoga and Harry Potter as the ‘work of the Devil’. He was appointed by the late Pope John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist.
It is not the first time Father Amorth has raised eyebrows with his forthright views – two years ago he said sex scandals rocking the Catholic Church were evidence ‘the Devil was at work in the Vatican.’
In 2006, Father Amorth, who was ordained a priest in 1954, gave an interview to Vatican Radio in which he said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Russian dictator Josef Stalin were possessed by the Devil.
According to secret Vatican documents recently released the then wartime Pope Pius XII attempted a ‘long distance exorcism’ of Hitler but it failed to have any effect.
Charismatic mobster De Pedis, leader of a murderous gang known as the Banda della Magliana, was gunned down aged just 38, by members of his outfit after they fell out.
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, 15, in 1983, believe De Pedis is linked to her kidnap and the body of the Vatican employee’s daughter has never been found.
Last month the diocese of Rome, on orders from the Vatican, granted investigators permission to open up the tomb in the Sant’Apollinare basilica close to Piazza Navona in the centre of Rome.
At the time of his funeral there were raised eyebrows when despite his criminal past church chiefs allowed De Pedis to be buried in the crypt of Sant’Apollinare.
At the time it was said the burial was given the go ahead because prison chaplain Father Vergari told bishops that De Pedis had ‘repented while in jail and also done a lot of work for charity,’ including large donations to the Catholic Church.
De Pedis, whose name on the £12,000 tomb is spelt in diamonds, was buried in Sant’Apollinare church after he was gunned down in 1990 in the city’s famous Campo De Fiori.
He and his gang controlled the lucrative drug market in Rome and were also rumoured to have a ‘free hand’ because of their links with police and Italian secret service agents.
The disappearance of Orlandi reads like the roller coaster plot of a Dan Brown Da Vinci Code thriller with a touch of The Godfather thrown in for good measure.
Twelve years ago a skull was found in the confessional box of a Rome church and tests were carried out on it to see if it was Orlandi after a mystery tip off but they proved negative.
In 2008 Sabrina Minardi, De Pedis girlfriend at the time of Orlandi’s disappearance, sensationally claimed that now dead American monsignor Paul Marcinkus, the controversial chief of the Vatican bank, was behind the kidnap.
Monsignor Marcinkus used his status to avoid being questioned by police in the early 1980′s probing the collapse of a Banco Ambrosiano which the Vatican had invested heavily in.
The collapse was linked to the murder of Roberto Calvi dubbed God’s Banker because of the Vatican links and his body was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
His pockets filled with cash and stones and it was originally recorded as a suicide but police believe he was murdered by the Mafia after a bungled money laundering operation.
At the same time as Minardi made her claim a mystery caller to a missing person’s programme on Italian TV said the riddle of Orlandi’s kidnap would be solved ‘if De Pedis tomb was opened’.
Following Minardi claims the Vatican took the unusual step of speaking publicly and dismissed her claims about American Monsignor Marcinkus, who died in Arizona four years ago.
FATHER GABRIEL AMORTH SAYS EMANUELA WAS A VICTIM OF SEX ABUSES BY VATICAN POLICE
Emanuela Orlandi 'was kidnapped for sex parties for Vatican police'
Father Gabriele Amorth, who was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican's chief exorcist and claims to have performed thousands of exorcisms, said Emanuela Orlandi was later murdered and her body disposed of.
In the latest twist in one of the Holy See's most enduring mysteries, he said the 15-year-old schoolgirl was snatched from the streets of central Rome in the summer of 1983 and forced to take part in sex parties.
"This was a crime with a sexual motive. Parties were organised, with a Vatican gendarme acting as the 'recruiter' of the girls.
"The network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle," Father Amorth, the honorary president of the International Association of Exorcists, told La Stampa newspaper.
The debate over who kidnapped Emanuela and what became of her has raged in Italy for three decades.
UN CAPO DE LA MAFIA SEPULTADO EN LA CRIPTA AL LADO DE SAN APOLINAR. DUNDE ESTA EMANUELA ORLANDI?
Enrico de Pedis, uno de los capos de la sangrienta banda de la Magliana, yace muerto tras ser tiroteado junto al Campo dei Fiori en febrero de 1990.
Enrico De Pedis murió como vivió, a tiros, en un callejón del Campo de' Fiori, el 2 de febrero de 1990, a los 35 años, después de haber sido uno de los últimos capos de la banda de la Magliana, un atajo de malhechores que desde mediados de los setenta controlaba los bajos fondos de la ciudad de Roma. Nadie se acordaría de Renatino —su nombre de guerra— si no fuera porque, en el año 2005, durante la emisión de un programa de la televisión italiana dedicado a buscar a personas desaparecidas, se recibió una misteriosa llamada:
—Si queréis saber más sobre Emanuela, mirad en la tumba de De Pedis…
Aquella noche, el programa Chi l'ha visto, una especie de Quién sabe dónde a la italiana, repasaba por enésima vez los detalles de la desaparición de Emanuela Orlandi, de 15 años, hija de un empleado del Vaticano. La última vez que la vieron fue a las siete de la tarde del miércoles 22 de junio de 1983, tras salir de clase de música, junto a la romana basílica de San Apolinar, a solo unos metros de la plaza Navona. Su familia empapeló la ciudad con su retrato en blanco y negro: “Pelo negro, largo y lacio. Pantalón vaquero y camisa blanca. Zapatillas de gimnasia. 1,60 de estatura…”. Unas horas después, en la ciudad del Vaticano se empezaron a recibir llamadas de los supuestos secuestradores. Un varón que hablaba italiano con acento anglosajón pedía la liberación del turco Alí Agca, quien dos años había atentado contra el papa Juan Pablo II en la plaza de San Pedro. Las extrañas y muy escurridizas llamadas telefónicas —hubo hasta 16 y ninguna pudo ser grabada por la policía— desaparecieron un día y jamás se supo si detrás de su secuestro estaba realmente el terrorismo internacional o las siempre turbias cuentas del Vaticano. Justo un año antes había estallado el escándalo del Banco Ambrosiano, una de cuyas habilidades consistía en lavar el dinero de la Mafia o de la logia masónica P-2. ¿Qué viejas y sucias cuentas se estaban tratando de ajustar a través del sufrimiento de la muchacha Orlandi? En 2005, nada más y nada menos que 22 años después, el programa de televisión seguía buceando en la oscuridad más absoluta cuando una llamada entró en antena:
“Si queréis saber más sobre Emanuela, mirad en la tumba de De Pedis…”,dijo una voz misteriosa en televisión
Pero, ¿dónde estaba enterrado De Pedis? Tras algunas investigaciones, saltó el escándalo. Si bien el criminal había muerto como había vivido, a sangre y fuego, su último reposo lo había encontrado en la exquisita paz de la basílica de San Apolinar. La conmoción fue general: el capo De Pedis compartía cripta con cardenales de la Iglesia. Su sepultura fue autorizada por el entonces rector de la basílica, monseñor Piero Vergari, con un texto que no tiene desperdicio: “Se certifica que el señor Enrico De Pedis, nacido en Roma-Trastevere el 15/05/1954 y fallecido en Roma el 2/2/1990, ha sido un gran benefactor de los pobres que frecuentaban la basílica y ha ayudado concretamente a muchas iniciativas de bien patrocinadas en estos últimos tiempos, tanto de carácter religioso como social. Ha dado contribuciones particulares para ayudar a los jóvenes, interesándose sobre todo por su formación cristiana y humana…”.
No parece que los jóvenes de la banda de la Magliana —retratados por Giancarlo de Cataldo en su obra Una novela criminal (publicada en España por Roca)— lograran a través de su formación “cristiana y humana” hacerse con el control de la delincuencia de Roma y colaborar, a ratos, con la Mafia y con las cloacas del Estado, pero a pesar de eso —o tal vez por ello— el entonces presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal italiana, cardenal Ugo Poletti, dio el plácet. Ahora se ha sabido —según declaraciones de una fuente del Vaticano a la agencia de noticias Ansa— que la viuda del capo pagó mil millones de liras (unos 450.000 euros) al cardenal Poletti por una tumba para su santo. El caso es que De Pedis sigue enterrado a San Apolinar, a solo unos metros del lugar donde la joven Orlandi fue vista por última vez…
Desde hace años, la familia de la muchacha pide ayuda al Papa para que la Iglesia cuente todo lo que sabe. Ha reunido más de 80.000 firmas y, por fin, ha logrado que la fiscalía de Roma autorice la apertura de la tumba del capo, para comprobar si junto a sus restos están también escondidos los de la muchacha. El portavoz del Vaticano, Federico Lombardi, insiste una y otra vez en que no dispone de datos ocultos e intenta defender la actuación de Juan Pablo II que “hasta en ocho ocasiones hizo llamamientos públicos a favor de la liberación de Emanuela”. Sin embargo, las huellas, aunque cada vez más débiles, siguen aproximándose al otro lado del Tíber. En junio de 2008, una antigua novia de Enrico De Pedis recuperó extrañamente la memoria y contó algunos de los pasajes de su vida con el capo. Muchas de las cosas que dijo no tenían ni pies ni cabeza, y así se demostró, pero otras resultaron muy llamativas. Contó, por ejemplo, que ella acompañó a De Pedis a deshacerse del cadáver de la muchacha a las afueras de Roma. No solo aportó la marca y el color del vehículo presuntamente utilizado en el secuestro —un BMW 745i gris oscuro—, sino que aseguró que se encontraba en un garaje subterráneo cercano a Villa Borghese. Los policías —seguramente sin mucha convicción— se acercaron y… allí estaba, 18 años después de la muerte del capo. Al indagar sobre el vehículo se descubrió que el primer dueño fue un empresario relacionado con el Banco Ambrosiano….
—Si queréis saber más sobre Emanuela, mirad en la tumba de De Pedis…
Desde hace años, la familia de la muchacha pide ayuda al Papa para que la Iglesia cuente todo lo que sabe del caso
La voz anónima que aquella noche de 2005, en un programa de televisión, volvió a resucitar el caso Orlandi tenía acento italiano. Pero la que, en 1983, llamó 16 veces al Vaticano atribuyéndose la autoría del secuestro lucía un deje anglosajón. Nunca pudo ser analizada porque su dueño logró siempre burlar las grabadoras policiales. Aquella voz se conoció como “la del americano” y se especuló con que fuera la del poderoso cardenal Paul Marcinkus, el banquero de Dios, fallecido en 2006 en Arizona, tan lejos de Roma. Una ciudad misteriosa donde un capo cabalga hacia el infierno escoltado por cardenales.
ETTORE TEDESCHI E O DINHEIRO SUJO DO VATICANO
Bento XVI fala com Ettore Tedeschi no Vaticano em 2011
O homem que descobriu o dinheiro sujo do Vaticano
O economista Ettore Tedeschi temia que alguém com poder no
Vaticano mandasse matá-lo, avança o jornal "El País", e por isso preparou um
enorme dossiê com provas sobre o branqueamento de capitais no banco daquele
Estado religioso. Caso apareça morto, todo esse trabalho será entregue a um
conjunto-chave de pessoas.
O diário espanhol nomeia a
lista de pessoas que deverão receber o meticuloso conjunto das alegadas provas
dos crimes do Vaticano: a dois amigos pessoais, um advogado, um jornalista e,
por fim, ao Papa.
São e-mails, fotocópias de agendas, anotações que, segundo Ettore Tedeschi, servirão para provar por que motivo falhou a sua missão no Instituo de Obras Religiosas. Na sua investigação, descobriu a circulação de dinheiro sujo de empresários, políticos e chefes da Máfia.
O Vaticano teme agora que o relatório de Ettore Tedeschi venha a público e já ameaçou as autoridades italianas de que, caso tais documentos não sejam retirados da posse do economista, que todos terão que responder perante os seus tribunais.
Além dos casos de fraude, lavagem de dinheiro e corrupção, do atual escândalo que envolve o Vaticano também fazia parte um suposto plano para eliminar Bento XVI.
Recorde-se que, no passado dia 25 de maio, o mordomo do Papa, Paolo Gabriele, foi detido sob suspeita de roubo de documentos e correspondência papal.
Entretanto, os inimigos de Ettore Tedeschi já questionaram a saúde mental do economista e pediram a realização de uma avaliação psicológica.
http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=2601318&page=-1
São e-mails, fotocópias de agendas, anotações que, segundo Ettore Tedeschi, servirão para provar por que motivo falhou a sua missão no Instituo de Obras Religiosas. Na sua investigação, descobriu a circulação de dinheiro sujo de empresários, políticos e chefes da Máfia.
O Vaticano teme agora que o relatório de Ettore Tedeschi venha a público e já ameaçou as autoridades italianas de que, caso tais documentos não sejam retirados da posse do economista, que todos terão que responder perante os seus tribunais.
Além dos casos de fraude, lavagem de dinheiro e corrupção, do atual escândalo que envolve o Vaticano também fazia parte um suposto plano para eliminar Bento XVI.
Recorde-se que, no passado dia 25 de maio, o mordomo do Papa, Paolo Gabriele, foi detido sob suspeita de roubo de documentos e correspondência papal.
Entretanto, os inimigos de Ettore Tedeschi já questionaram a saúde mental do economista e pediram a realização de uma avaliação psicológica.
http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=2601318&page=-1
Thursday, 7 June 2012
BISHOP FELLAY TALKS ABOUT THE RECENTE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEGOTIATIOSN WITH THE VATICAN
SSPX leader: "We do not have to accept the whole of Vatican II"
The leader of the traditionalist Society of St Pius X has said talks with the Vatican demonstrate that “Rome no longer makes total acceptance” of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council a condition for his group’s full reconciliation with the Church.
Accepting the Council’s teaching is no longer “a prerequisite for the canonical solution” of the status of the society, according to Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX.
In an interview published today on the society’s news site,www.dici.org, Bishop Fellay said it was the Vatican that approached the society, and not the society that went to the Vatican, asking to begin the talks.
“So the attitude of the official Church is what changed; we did not,” he said. “We were not the ones who asked for an agreement; the Pope is the one who wants to recognise us.”
In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications that had been incurred by Bishop Fellay and other SSPX bishops when they were ordained without papal permission 11 years earlier. Also in 2009, the Pope established a Vatican committee to hold doctrinal talks with society representatives.
In September 2011, the Vatican gave Bishop Fellay a “doctrinal preamble” outlining “some doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation of Catholic doctrine necessary to guarantee fidelity” to the formal teaching of the Church. Neither the Vatican nor the SSPX has made the text public, but the Vatican said it leaves room for “legitimate discussion” about “individual expressions or formulations present in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and the successive magisterium” of the Church.
Bishop Fellay submitted his first response to the document in March, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Benedict, defined it as “insufficient”. The bishop gave the Vatican his second response in April and, as of June 7, it was still under study at the Vatican.
In the interview on the SSPX website, Bishop Fellay said: “We are still not in agreement doctrinally, and yet the Pope wants to recognise us. Why? The answer is right in front of us: there are terribly important problems in the Church today.”
The reconciliation talks, he said, are a sign that the Catholic Church has begun to recognise it needs to recover traditions and traditional teaching eclipsed by the Second Vatican Council. If the SSPX were to reconcile fully with the Church, Bishop Fellay said, its members would continue to denounce “doctrinal difficulties” in the Church, but would do so while also providing “tangible signs of the vitality of tradition” in its growing membership and vocation rate.
Speaking to members of the SSPX who are wary of reconciliation, Bishop Fellay said “one of the great dangers is to end up inventing an idea of the Church that appears ideal, but is in fact not found in the real history of the Church”.
“Some claim that in order to work ‘safely’ in the Church, she must first be cleansed of all error. This is what they say when they declare that Rome must convert before any agreement, or that its errors must first be suppressed so that we can work,” he said.
But the reality of the Church’s history shows that “often, and almost always, we see that there are widespread errors” and that God calls holy men and women to work within the Church to correct the errors, Bishop Fellay said.
“We are being asked to come and work just as all the reforming saints of all times did,” he said.
Bishop Fellay said he did not have a timetable for the conclusion of the talks. “There are even some who say that the Pope will deal with this matter at [the papal summer villa in] Castel Gandolfo in July.”
Sunday, 3 June 2012
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