BJs, Sexual Blackmail and Nazi Gold – The Heart of the Vatican Bank? – Pope Francis and his Prison Hall Dining Companions

The best way for a crime boss in prison to keep up with every little detail of control inside and outside the prison is to blend in with the Prison population.  While the cafeteria at the Pope’s hotel is hardly a prison dining hall, a lot of strange and perverted characters can get close to the boss, pass on a signal or written note on two and nobody would be aware of it as opposed to being in the traditional big papal apartments and being on video tape from cameras or having to sign in and out of restricted areas near the pope.

On one level Pope Francis is the sweet simple man he pretends to be. On another level the former archbishop of Buenos Aires was not aware of Monsignor Battista Ricca in the Papal Nuncio’s Office across the mouth of the River Plata over in Montevideo Uruguay when he Monsignor brought along a lover, a Swiss Guard, when he was conducting financial stuff at the Nuncio from about 1999 to 2001. Of course the Fire department finding the Monsignor getting a blow job in a stuck elevator from his Swiss Guard probably was an exaggerated story that the Archbishop of Buenos Aires never heard about. But they did ship Ricca off to Trinidad and Tobago and he recently showed up in chow hall at the Santa Marta B&B favored by the pope and the pope put good ole Battista Ricca on the board of the Vatican Bank in a seat next to board member Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus etc.

I am beginning to think that Ratzinger stayed on to tie up the loose ends of Wojtyla’s boys and buggery scandals. That Francis is staying on the tie up the loose ends of the Vatican Bank’s finances.

That considering the source Argentina, maybe the Vatican Bank is not merely trying to cover up and tie up the loose ends of the JPII era when the Vatican Bank was a clearing house for the CIA.

Maybe the ratline of the Odessa and Pius Xii’s gold bug obsession is at the heart of innocent Pope Francis appointing a notorious bugger cleric to run the Shadow end of the Vatican Bank etc. ??? Maybe the heart of the corruption of the worldwide RC church imploding right now has to do with the inability of a corrupt few from letting go of all that Nazi gold, Vatican accounts held in Argentina by former Nazis, gold pried out of the teeth of millions of dead Jews rather than the mere paper billions the CIA ran through the bank for arms and destruction of the Soviet Block?

Pope Francis is perhaps not as innocent as he appears in the Media to be.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100227354/gay-scandal-at-the-heart-of-the-vatican-pope-francis-faces-his-first-crisis/

Father Tony Flannery on the Cloyne Report – A Tongue the Vatican Must Rip Out and Silence for the Sake of Destroying all Dissent

http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2011/07/cloyne-report-tony-flannery.html

July 18, 2011

I am writing this on the morning after the Cloyne report, and out of the perspective of almost forty years conducting parish missions around the country.

Cloyne was always an unusual diocese, or to be more accurate, Cobh was.

In the era after Humanae Vitae, when on our missions we tried to soften the rigid implementation of that teaching in the Irish Church, we met more resistance in Cobh than anywhere else.

That Cathedral, with its scrupulous and legalistic bishop (John Ahern) and those six priests houses at the back, was easily the most clerical scene I witnessed in my time.

Men like Tim Sheahan, John Thornhill, Pat Twomey and Denis Reidy were clear and strong in their views, and were unwavering servants of the official Church line on all things. So any dialogue was almost impossible. Certainty was the order of the day.

Curiously, in the seventies, I met with more anti-clericalism in Cobh than in any place outside of Limerick or Dublin. It must be said that the atmosphere in the rest of the diocese was very different, and there were many great priests there, just as there are today, and my heart goes out to them this morning.

Then John Magee was appointed bishop. Why was he appointed? He was clearly unsuitable, and was an imposition from Rome. Was it that they wanted to get rid of him over there, or that it was a reward for covering up the circumstances of John Paul I’s death.

I don’t know, but it was a good example of the terrible policy of Episcopal appointments pursued by John Paul II, which I see as being one of the main reasons for the mess the Church finds itself in today.

He was never fully accepted, and his manner and attitudes were foreign to many of the priests and people. He gathered some kudos by promoting perpetual adoration for a time.

But I remember an old priest, now long dead, saying to me about 1990 that the diocese would reap a terrible whirlwind from the policies of John Magee.

Of course there never was an easy relationship between John Magee and Denis O’Callaghan, because O’Callaghan felt that he should have got the mitre.

So it does not surprise me to learn that a big part of the problems that was revealed yesterday had to do with a lack of communication between the two.

O’Callaghan was too much into power and position in the Church himself, as was obvious from his volte face as a moral theologian after Humanae Vitae came out.

All in all, this sorry chapter highlights a lot of what is wrong with the official Church, and with the Vatican bureaucracy. Will anything be learned? I don’t know. The abuse victims have had their day, and that is good.

And the state would appear to be responding well. The sooner the handling of everything around sexual abuse of children is dealt with by the state the better; and that is why I am no fan of Church bodies or guidelines dealing with it.

It would be much better if anyone who has a complaint in this area did not go to a bishop or a priest, but went to the civil authorities, and let them deal with it.

And if the law is not sufficiently strong to handle the complexity of the cases, then let it be changed. In that way there would be no confusion or cover-up.

In the meantime we priests struggle on.

And I would ask the people of Cloyne diocese today to be conscious of their own priest, and what it must be like for him.

Maybe a word of support or encouragement would help.

Tony Flannery

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magee_(bishop)


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(One has to wonder if John Magee, like Justin Rigali, before their exiles from the Vatican heard one too many confessions from the fine young studs in the Swiss Guards Barracks, as their chaplains, and knew something someone powerful in the Vatican, a secret, (a dirty little German secret?), that could only destroy clerical careers instead of elevating them? Or it is all just a typical grand Peter Principle job scale thing - Vatican Style?)

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