Bishop Padovese canceled Cyprus trip to avoid assassination of Pope

EWTN ^ | June 9, 2010 | EWNT Staff

[livius]

An Italian Vatican expert is saying that Bishop Luigi Padovese, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia and President of the Turkish Bishops’ Conference, canceled his trip to Cyprus because he feared that his driver –who later confessed to killing the bishop- might attempt an attack on Pope Benedict XVI during his stay on the island.

Analyst Fr. Fillippo di Giacomo, who writes for publications such as L’Unitá and La Stampa, revealed that “hours before Padovese was killed, the Turkish Government called him to say that his driver, who they themselves had put in his service four years before, had gotten out of hand. That is to say, he had embraced the fundamentalist cause.”

[livius]

See the article for more details.

BTW, El Pais (cited in the article) is the Spanish equivalent of the NY Times in its hostility to the Church, so if even it is reporting these details, you know it's got to be serious!

[livius]

Ping to a couple of folks who might be interested in this. I just got back from Spain, but when I was read Freeper postings on this while I was over there, I saw the usual suspects coming out to imply that there was something unsavory going on.

Well, it seems that there was: this driver, who had been provided to the bishop by the Turkish Government, was obviously probably a Muslim spy to begin with (he initially portrayed himself as a Catholic) and secondly clearly became so radicalized that even the Turkish Government was afraid that some incident was going to occur.

[jazminerose]

All of that “muslim outreach” is working like a charm

BO won’t be doing any Catholic Outreach anytime soon.

Or Christian, or Jewish, or Mormon, or Hindu or any actual legitimate religion.

[Unam Sanctam]

“hours before Padovese was killed, the Turkish Government called him to say that his driver, who they themselves had put in his service four years before, had gotten out of hand. That is to say, he had embraced the fundamentalist cause.”

Hmmmm. Most curious, particularly the fact that the Turkish gov't appointed the driver in the first place.

[ArrogantBustard]

Thank you ...

TROP: the simplest explanation in cases like this.

Why some folks want to make it complicated eludes me.

[NYer]

Thanks for the ping but I have already pinged a duplicate thread [Murdered] Bishop Padovese canceled Cyprus trip to avoid assassination of Pope [By his Driver] . It probably did not come up when you did the search.

[livius]

Nothing ever comes up when I do a search! Maybe it’s me...

[Biggirl]

Well the mask has at last fallen off the face of the Turkish government, not only with this tragic stabbing death of this bishop, but also in its efforts to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.