Its harder to get the truth out of the Vatican than it is to get it out of the Clintons.
The Vatican has been the source of ultimate truth for 2,015 years.....and there are groups who think that they know better.......they are wrong.
This article is an unlikely source for truth. The second paragraph of the second section has the culprits demanding 1000 kilograms of gold each from 500,000 captives, and then, after the payoff was made, still executing them.
That is a great deal of gold—literally an incredible amount, which makes the whole article rather dubious.