Rent-Boy Scandal Rocks the Vatican: Convicted Priest Patrizio Poggi Exposes Vatican Prostitution Ring

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Rent-Boy Scandal Rocks the Vatican: Convicted Priest Patrizio Poggi Exposes Vatican Prostitution Ring
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I don't agree with this reporters last line.... but the rest is huge. This is it for the cult.

Pope Launches Inquiry – Vatican Official Arrested

Posted by Deus Nexus on June 28, 2013


Reposted from: Daily Mail.     By DAMIEN GAYLE

• Comes as Vatican official placed under investigation for money laundering
  
• Previous leaks revealed dysfunction, turf wars and alleged corruption
  
• The Vatican bank’s workings have long been shrouded in secrecy
  

Pope Francis in St Peter’s square today: He has announced a probe into the activities of the highly secretive and scandal-tainted Vatican Bank
Pope Francis ordered an inquiry into the activities of the Vatican bank today, after fresh accusations of corruption and continued questions about its secrecy.
Francis named a commission to investigate the bank’s legal structure and activities ‘to allow for a better harmonization with the universal mission of the Apostolic See,’ according to the legal document that created it.
The announcement came after prosecutors in Salerno placed senior Vatican official Monsignor Nunzio Scarano under investigation for alleged money-laundering.
Scarano has said he did nothing wrong, though in an interview with the local daily, La Citta di Salerno, he acknowledged he received bad advice from his accountant.
The five-member commission includes two Americans: Monsignor Peter Wells, a top official in the Vatican secretariat of state, and Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard law professor, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and current president of a pontifical academy.
American cardinals were among the most vocal in demanding a wholesale reform of the Vatican bureaucracy – and the Vatican bank – in the meetings running up to the March conclave that elected Francis pope.
The demands were raised following revelations in leaked documents last year that told of dysfunction, petty turf wars and allegations of corruption in the Holy See’s governance.
It was the second time in as many weeks that Francis has intervened to get information out of the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR.
On June 15, he filled a key vacancy in the bank’s governing structure, tapping a trusted prelate to be his eyes inside the bank.
Francis, who has made clear he wants a ‘poor’ church, has already named a separate commission of cardinals to advise him on the broader question of reforming the Vatican bureaucracy as a whole.
The Vatican bank was founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII to manage assets destined for religious or charitable works.
Located in a tower just inside the gates of Vatican City, it also manages the pension system for the Vatican’s thousands of employees.
The bank commission’s members have the authority to gather documents, data and information about the bank’s legal status and activities, even overriding normal secrecy rules to do so.
Members can receive information from anyone in the Vatican bureaucracy as well as people who spontaneously volunteer information, and the commission can refer to outside advisers if necessary, according to the terms.
The bank’s administration continues to function as normal, as does the Vatican’s new financial watchdog agency which has supervisory control over it.
The commission will report back to Francis – presumably with both information and recommendations – and then will be dissolved, the document states.
No timeframe was given but the commission is to start working soon.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed today that Scarano had been suspended temporarily from his position in one of the Vatican’s key finance offices, the Administration for the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported over the weekend that Italy’s central bank had asked the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency for information about Scarano’s Vatican bank account as part of the probe.
Mr Lombardi said he didn’t know if the Vatican had responded to the request.
There have long been questions about just what the IOR actually is and does – questions which the commission presumably will try to iron out for Francis.
Vatican officials have long insisted it’s not even a bank, since it doesn’t perform key banking activities like making loans.
It does however take deposits, transfer money and invest for its clients, performing asset management services that in 2012 helped earn it 86.6 million euros in profit on 7.1 billion euros in total assets under management.
Some cardinals have questioned if the Vatican needs such a financial institution and whether its activities are even in keeping with church teaching.
The Vatican bank’s workings have long been shrouded in secrecy. Most famously, it was implicated in a scandal over the collapse of Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano in the 1980s in one of Italy’s largest fraud cases.
Roberto Calvi, the head of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 in circumstances that remain mysterious.

Vatican bank cleric arrested in €20m corruption inquiry
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, 61, accused of trying to help friends bring millions of euros into Italy from Switzerland by plane
Reposted from: guardian.uk
A senior Vatican cleric suspected of trying to help rich friends bring millions of euros into Italy illegally has been arrested as part of an investigation into the Vatican bank.
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, 61, who worked as a senior accountant in the Vatican’s financial administration, is involved in another investigation by magistrates in southern Italy. He was arrested in a parish in the outskirts of Rome and taken to the city’s Queen of Heaven jail, his lawyer, Silverio Sica, said. Also arrested in the investigation were a member of Italy’s secret services and a financial broker.
Sica said Scarano was accused of being involved in an attempt to help friends bring €20m (£17m) into Italy from Switzerland by plane, in league with the secret service agent and a financial intermediary.
The lawyer, who had access to the charge sheet, said the money never left Switzerland. Detectives identified the secret service agent as Giovanni Zitto and the broker as Giovanni Carenzio. It was not clear what role the bank had, if any, in the latest developments.
A Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, said Vatican authorities were willing to co-operate with the investigation, but had so far received no official request. He said the AIF, the Vatican’s financial authority, was monitoring the case and would take action if necessary.
The arrests came two days after the Vatican announced Pope Francis had set up a commission of inquiry into the bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion, which has been hit by a numerous scandals over the years.
Scarano worked for years as a senior accountant for a Vatican department known as the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. He was suspended from his duties several weeks ago when he was placed under investigation by magistrates in the southern city of Salerno, his home town.
In that inquiry, Sica said wealthy friends had donated money to Scarano to help him build a home for the terminally ill. According to the lawyer, his client wanted to use that money to pay off his mortgage so he could sell a property in Salerno and use the proceeds to construct the facility.
In an apparent attempt to cover his tracks, Scarano has been accused of taking €560,000 in cash out of his account in the Vatican bank a little at a time, usually €10,000 and giving it to friends who then gave him cheques. He deposited the cheques into a separate bank account to pay off the mortgage.
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I always wonder what practicing Catholics think when they read this stuff.

I doubt they get a chance to see it. But it would be interesting to know what they think.
I wonder what it will take for them to see this? How bad this will be when it comes out how very many of the children were violated, sold, sacrificed to Satan.
When the UK really gets that the Queen is just plain evil. That the Windsors are NOT the legitimate heirs to the throne. That there should be no throne.
Gaia is in free fall right now....

I have some Catholic friends but there is no way I would forward this article to them. I have no idea what they think because I really don't want to discuss it with them. It's so vile and it pains me that people still show up for church like little robots and act like nothing is amiss when, as you say, all those children were sacrificed in the name of the God they pray to. What they believe is the blood of Christ sacrament is something else entirely. How can sane people align themselves with this? It's one of the biggest puzzles of our time.

pray earnestly for the church - huh - I don't think so.

RavensMoon, I don't blame you for not wanting to forward this to them, they would only make their excuses to ease their own minds and drop you as a friend. As their friend all you can do is be there for them when all of the truth comes out because it sure sounds like they will need you most then.

I hadn't really thought about that, Herb Lady, but you're probably right. Except the truth is already out there and has been for quite some time. The pedophilia thing has been exposed for many years. I did once ask one friend about it, she said, "Oh that just a few isolated priests, not the whole church." Well, yes and no... first, of course it's not the entire church, there are outstanding priests out there, no doubt. But the core of the church is rotten because they protected those few bad apples and put them back out in parishes where they continued their chosen proclivity, which was pretty much of a blanket invitation for any pedophile to say, "Yo, the priesthood is for me. I've been called to serve the Lord!" Such hypocrisy is very hard for non-Catholics to stomach or understand.

I understand what you are saying, have a family member that way as well. I still say that when all of the ugliness of the church as a whole comes out, they are going to need you the most then because they are just going to be blown away. All of the hypocrisy is hard for non-Catholics to stomach and understand. Use to be Catholic as it was forced upon me as a child but I still didn't feel comfortable about it then, and don't ever want to have anything to do with it again.

I have to take Hooch out again, I'll be back in a bit!

Marty, being married to a former nun must have its challenges as well as its joys. I imagine that kind of indoctrination never really leaves a person no matter how much horrid fact is presented to them. The issues with the Vatican and Catholic church are so horribly diabolical that the non-indoctrinated can barely grasp it, so we have to understand how hard it must be for the brainwashed. And truly, both you and HL are right, all we can do is be there for them should they actually try to grasp this enormity. This is enlightenment and we're all headed there in different ways.