THE GHOST OF ROBERTO CALVI: The dark forces behind the death of ‘God’s Banker’ may still be at work today
Catholics are, without question, facing the worst scandal since the Arian heresy if not in the history of the Church. It seems that every day some new horror is released from the Vatican, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) or even in one’s local parish. Stories of sexual abuse, financial malfeasance and even occultism and Satanism among the Catholic hierarchy make reading the daily Catholic news little different than listening to reruns of Art Bell’s classic conspiracy show Coast to Coast AM.
in London on June 17, 1982. He was a member of the freemasonic
group P2, whose members called themselves “black friars.”
However, as many Catholic commentators have noted, much of the diabolical trickery at work in the contemporary Church has been present in much of the post-Vatican II and even pre-Vatican II Church. Indeed, just because Our Lord promised the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Holy Church doesn’t mean that the devil would not at least try to destroy it.
One of the key nodal points from which we can start unraveling the story of how the “mystery of iniquity” appears to have infiltrated the Church is the mysterious death of Italian banker Roberto Calvi on June 17, 1982.
from the River Thames. It was found hanging half in, half out of the water.
Known as “God’s Banker,” Calvi was the head of the Banco Ambrosiano, which itself was partially owned by the Vatican Bank (Institute for the Works of Religion). Prior to his strange death, Calvi had been under investigation for nearly $1.3 billion that was missing from the Banco Ambrosiano.
The story of Roberto Calvi’s life and death runs the gambit of 20th-century Cold War intrigue, including stories of freemasonic rituals, escaped Nazis and former fascists, as well connections to moneylaundering, drug running and Western intelligence.
Calvi himself was a member of the P2 (Propaganda Due) Masonic Lodge, what was one of the most powerful centers of European Freemasonry and was ruled at its 20th century height by the archmason and spy master Licio Gelli.
from Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with bricks
along with $15,000 in cash in three types of currencies.
Many claim that Gelli’s P2 was intimately involved with the CIA’s Operation Gladio, a network of paramilitary groups responsible for a host of terrorist acts in NATO countries in the 1970s and 80s.
While such a statement may seem outlandish, Italian officials publicly pulled the mask off of Gladio in 1990, revealing its clandestine activities to the entire world, as even the Washington Post has admitted.
Gelli himself was investigated for his involvement in Gladio as well as the poisoning of Michele “the Shark” Sidona, a banker who died in jail after drinking a cup of strangely tainted coffee.
Sidona himself was friends with Giovanni Battista Montini, the archbishop of Milan. Later, as Pope Paul VI, Montini would reward Sidona with a powerful position in the Vatican Bank for a large loan Sidona had given to the then-archbishop of Milan.
Sidona, like Gelli, and possibly Calvi himself, worked with American intelligence throughout the Cold War.
Gelli, who evaded true justice his entire life, was also one of the prime suspects in Calvi’s death.
The murder of Robert Calvi, however, appears to be about more than personal and financial disputes between Gelli and himelf. The mainstream press covering a 2005 investigation of Calvi’s murder noted that it had been alleged that Calvi was financing the Solidarity movement in Poland at the request of John Paul II.
Indeed, Gelli made the claim in court that the Holy Father had owed Calvi $80 million for his work supporting solidarity. Gelli further stated that Calvi had threatened John Paul that “if he did not get the money everything would blow up … .“
Roberto Calvi was later found by a postal worker hanging under London’s Blackfriars Bridge located near the Inns of Court. In Calvi’s pockets, investigators found several bricks as well as $15,000 in cash.
Although his death was ruled a suicide in 1982, Calvi’s body was exhumed in 1998, and a 2002 report revealed that it was very unlikely for Calvi to have hanged himself and stuffed his own pocket with bricks.
To this very day, however, Calvi’s death remains unsolved, and the connections between the banker, the papacy, American intelligence and Freemasonry, despite mainstream media investigation, are still hazy at best.
The ghost of Roberto Calvi lingers in our own day as questions of Vatican finances as well as ties between the Vatican, high finance and the big movers and shakers of geopolitics garner near-daily media attention.
One of the most pronounced echoes of the Calvi case is the odd trial and imprisonment of Australian Cdl. George Pell.
Victoria, Australia appealing his conviction
On Feb. 2, 2019 Cdl. Pell was found guilty of sodomizing a 13-year-old boy, including four other counts of “indecent acts” with the aforementioned boy, as well as another who had served in the choir of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne.
Cardinal Pell’s trial is unusual for a variety of reasons. To this day, Pell maintains his innocence, and there are a few odd details about the accusations that remain unresolved.
Moreover, Pell is especially hated by both the liberal Catholic and secular media for his strongly Catholic moral positions as archbishop of Melbourne and Sidney.
The most curious fact about the Pell case is that he was nearly immediately brought under investigation after he began to discover irregularities in Vatican finances as head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy.
Is it possible that, while cleaning up Vatican finances, Cdl. Pell uncovered things that very important people wanted to remain hidden? Is it possible that the very same generational forces that took the life of Roberto Calvi still operate in perhaps mutated and variant form in the Vatican and murky world of banking and intelligence today?
This speculation, however, is not to make a judgment on whether or not Cdl. Pell is innocent or guilty of sexual abuse. Rather, we must raise the possibility that the primary reason why Cdl. Pell is in prison may not be due to whatever sexual crimes he may or may not have committed, but because he may have crossed some powerful people who wanted to let sleeping dogs lie.
Finally, this reflection on the legacy of Roberto Calvi and the nefarious forces at work behind the Vatican Bank should prompt us to consider what was really going on behind the scenes at the Amazon Synod.
Is it possible that the Pachamama affair, as grievous a scandal and sacrilege as it is, was a distraction for us to mask darker geopolitical, financial and, ultimately, diabolical machinations behind the scenes?
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CARDINAL GEORGE PELL MAY BE CALLED TO TESTIFY IN FINANCIAL CORRUPTION INQUIRY
by Stephen Wynne • ChurchMilitant.com • October 24, 2019
Vatican prosecutor widening probe into financial irregularities
MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal George Pell may be called to give evidence for an inquiry into a growing Vatican financial scandal.
On Tuesday, the Australian Associated Press reported that Pell — currently serving a six-year prison term after a sex abuse conviction widely seen as dubious — may be required to testify as part of the Holy See’s investigation into alleged financial irregularities involving the Vatican Secretariat of State
Pell was head of the Secretariat for the Economy from 2014–2017. As prefect, he was responsible for cleaning up Church finances and may be able to shed light on the alleged misappropriation of nearly half a billion dollars in contributions to Peter’s Pence, the pope’s fund for the poor.
The Vatican prosecutor’s office is leading the investigation. According to newly revealed documents, the inquiry discovered “serious indications of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, money laundering and self-laundering” involving curial officials.
These documents include complaints filed by the Institute of Religious Works (the Vatican Bank), as well as files relating to a real estate transaction in which $200 million was siphoned from Peter’s Pence to purchase a residential building in the heart of London’s fashionable West End and another $250 million rerouted to fraudulent legal firms set up to cover the purchase of the property.
There were people inside about whom I wouldn’t be surprised at anything they would do. Things that one couldn’t imagine are perpetrated within the Church.
As part of the inquiry, on Oct. 1, Vatican police executed a raid on the Secretariat of State and the Financial Intelligence Authority, seizing files, computers and other equipment.
The following day, a confidential memo announcing the suspension of five Vatican officials was leaked to the press.
Domenico Giani
The raid was led by Domenico Giani, head of the Vatican police. On Oct. 14, after more than 20 years of service, Giani suddenly resigned from his post.
According to one Vatican source, he was forced out by Secretary of State Cdl. Pietro Parolin and his allies: “Parolin and his substitute Abp. Edgar Peña Parra were very embarrassed by the raid conducted by the Gendarmerie. Giani’s head was more than payback, it was a warning to any others who would continue to probe in the future.”
Giani is the latest in a string of officials reportedly forced out after trying to clean up Vatican finances, for decades dogged by allegations of corruption.
For example, in June 2017, Libero Milone, the auditor-general responsible for overseeing clean-up of the Vatican Bank, resigned without explanation. Charges of inappropriate use of funds were later leveled against him.
In September 2017, Milone broke his silence, denying corruption charges and telling reporters he was forced out after discovering financial irregularities. He also claimed that his computers and phones were bugged by Vatican officials. The Holy See denied his assertions.
Libero Milone (AP)
In July 2018, a Vatican tribunal vindicated Milone, concluding there was no evidence to support the accusations against him. All criminal proceedings and penalties against Milone were dropped.
Ettore Tedeschi, head of the Vatican bank from 2009–2012, suffered similar treatment for his attempts to clean house.
After three years as chief, Tedeschi was accused of money laundering and forced from his position. Like Milone, he was later acquitted.
In a March 2019 interview, Tedeschi revealed that names on bank accounts were regularly changed illegally and that he hesitated to look too deeply into certain accounts, as he feared this would endanger his family and him.
In fact, Tedeschi admitted he feared being assassinated while trying to clean up the Vatican Bank.
“There were people inside about whom I wouldn’t be surprised at anything they would do. Things that one couldn’t imagine are perpetrated within the Church,” he said.
Some observers claim that Cdl. Pell is the ultimate embodiment of this sentiment.
They suggest that as prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy, he provoked entrenched Vatican interests when he revealed the Secretariat of State had significant unlisted funds and note that not long after, he was forced to step aside to fight suspect claims of sexual abuse.
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