Posted on 12/22/2020 6:14:56 PM PST by marshmallow
"We shouldn't forget Sindona, who was found poisoned in prison"
Cardinal George Pell has claimed he was framed on child sex charges by senior figures in the Catholic Church due to his work on Vatican financial reform.
In an interview with Italian media channel RAI 1, Cardinal Pell, 79, alleged everyone who investigated the church’s finances had been ‘publicly attacked’.
‘All the most important people that have worked together on financial reform, every single one of us, I believe with very few exceptions, has been attacked in the media and had our reputations besmirched in one way or another,’ he told RAI 1’s Sette Storie program on Monday.
He referred to the case of Roberto Calvi, a Vatican banker who was in 1982 found dead hanging from a London bridge, and to banker Michele Sindona, who was fatally poisoned in prison in 1986.
‘We all remember what happened to Calvi, who killed himself at a bridge in London … with his hands behind his back. A strange way to hang yourself,’ he said.
‘And we shouldn’t forget what happened to that other one, Sindona, who was found poisoned in prison …. tempi antichi [ancient times.]
‘Today, more often than not they attack by destroying reputations.’
In December 2018 Pell was convicted on five charges of child sexual abuse but in April had his convictions quashed by the High Court.
He has since returned to his residence in Vatican City after a short period in Sydney and is due to publish his prison diaries this week.
The cardinal spent 404 days in prison before his acquittal.
Cardinal Pell was tasked in 2014 with overseeing Vatican finances, including its budget, and cleaning up its books after a number of corruption scandals.
He returned to Australia in 2018 to face charges and never resumed......
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Calvi didn’t kill himself.
Was John Paul I a victim of foul play?
“Was John Paul I a victim of foul play?”
No. Pope John Paul I was not a victim. He probably died of stress. He was a holy man who, like other popes, could not deal with the stress.
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