Posted on 07/02/2012 5:57:03 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Senior Vatican officials are battling over the future of the Vatican bank. While some would like total transparency, dubious transactions from the past and present could harm the Church's image.
It was to be an important day for Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who had recently been fired as the head of the Vatican bank -- even if it turned out differently than he'd expected. Tedeschi was planning to go to the Vatican on that morning, but he never got there. The 67-year-old banker missed the high-speed train to Rome, meaning he couldn't, as he had planned, get into a taxi at the Italian capital's central station for the short journey across the Tiber River to the Vatican. There, he had hoped to take the documents out of his briefcase and hand them over to a confidant of the pope.
Instead, Gotti Tedeschi found four men waiting for him in the street -- not a hit squad as he feared at first, but investigators with the Carabinieri, Italy's national military police force. Even before he reached his car, they presented him with a search warrant and escorted him back to his house. For several hours, they searched through his sparsely furnished, cloister-like home office. At the same time, other officers were searching through Gotti Tedeschi's office in Milan. Among the objects they confiscated were two computers, two cabinets' full of binders, a planner and his briefcase.
The investigators were pleased. While they made but little headway in their corruption investigation involving a client of a company Gotti Tedeschi had once headed, an Italian subsidiary of the Spanish banking giant Santander, they stumbled upon something else in there search which proved to be spectacular.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
My Church, Scandel after Scandel. Heartbreaking
The rot goes clear to the core.
Note that this is to do with the National bank of the sovereign state that is Vatican City. It’s not Church dogma or doctrine.
possibly to the core of the Central bank of that sovereign state, perhaps
As with the priests scandal, the doctrine seems to be, “It’s only Wrong If You’re Caught”.
Nah, this isn’t the Jehovah’s Witnesses who have all of that and more...
Brain-washing is rife in the Jehowah's Witness cult, right?
But, leaving your religion out of it, because this matter has nothing to do with religion, but about the non-clerical bankers in the central bank of a sovereign state.
Bankers play with the rules, that's what regulations are for
I thought it was about giving Caesar’s things to Caesar and letting your yes mean yes and your no mean no. Silly me.
I guess all that ends at the front door of the bank.
yes, look at what happened or is happening at other central banks like the fed, the ecb etc
And you quoting that should realise that your earlier statements are negated by this. The Central bank of the sovereign state that is Vatican City is a separate matter from religious matters that is in Vatican city
That’s two times that you have told them.
Are they listening/reading?
LOL!
Since you make the charge I must assume you've already done so and are not just parroting other’s opinions from some website or blog and that you'll not expect me to go chasing links to such.
So how about it? You want to compare the two translations? Right here or another thread, makes no difference to me.
OR is it to be more vague innuendo which I won't attempt to debate. Whatta ya say?
I want you to stop your knee-jerk “ooh, caflicks” just because your cult tells you to jump hoops. The article is about a Central Bank and you go all Dimocrat and jump topic. Stick on the topic and leave your master’s brainwashing behind in the Jehovah’s witness crowd.
The Vatican Bank is not just a central bank like any other. It is THE bank operated by and for the benefit of a religious institution that lays claim to apostolic Christianity.
The bankers do not remove their collars and don three piece suits and wingtips when they enter the bank. The bankers are bound by secular law and Scripture to be law abiding. to pay what what belongs to Caesar to Caesar.
“The article is about a Central Bank and you go all Dimocrat and jump topic”.
The article is about the scandal ridden central bank of an institution that claims to follow Christ, to speak for him and make disciples for him.
My comments are on target. And no, I won't reciprocate or respond to the personal barbs. I don't do that.
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