Why the need for "confidential financial transactions", Jorge?
Are you still hiding things, like you secret dealings with Xi Jinping?
Posted on 10/10/2020 4:04:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
There was a point in the Watergate scandal when revelations came so thick and fast that journalists struggled to keep up with them. And we seem to have reached an equivalent point in respect to the scandals engulfing Pope Francis's Vatican.
Last week I interviewed Vatican expert Ed Condon about the sacking of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, accused by the Pope of stealing or misusing unimaginable sums of Church money, something he denies. Since Ed and I spoke, there have been two developments, both in their own way hard to believe.
First, Angelo Becciu is now accused of overseeing the transfer of large amounts of money to Australia during the trial on fabricated sex abuse charges of his arch-adversary Cardinal George Pell, who had rumbled him.
Second, the Pope has announced the setting up of a commission to decide which Vatican financial transactions should remain confidential. And, incredibly, the man he has asked to run it is Cardinal Kevin Farrell, formerly one of the closest associates of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the pathological sex abuser who was for many years Archbishop of Washington.
To quote the title of Lionel Shriver's celebrated novel, we really need to talk about Kevin. Listen to this episode to discover why.
Why the need for "confidential financial transactions", Jorge?
Are you still hiding things, like you secret dealings with Xi Jinping?
If this guy isn’t the equivalent of an antipope, I don’t know who is. I am sorry to say that my trust in the Catholic Church has disappeared.
Not the equivalent of an antipope. He is an antipope. There was still a living, competent, valid pope who has not acknowledged he has lost the charisms of the papacy.
The man is constantly redecorating - last time it was turning the Vatican into a mosque.
Bergoglio is busy bailing on everybody who has helped him in this. Apparently Farrell is one of a new crop of cronies being brought in to replace the ones that Bergoglio is ditching.
So Parolin, who with the help of McCarrick and Farrell, brokered the sell-out of the Catholics in China, was also on the council overseeing the Vatican Bank, which is reportedly receiving 2 million dollars/yr from Xi Jinping? What a coincidence!
More like Pee Wee Herman’s Playhouse.
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