Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but ... the defendants are accused of embezzlement, right? And fraud on the way there? The popular perception is that the defendants are guilty and deserve punishment, but there is a chance that Pope Francis will allow it anyway because he was in on it and his relationship to the defendants is akin to Nixon's relationship to the Watergate plumbers?
If I got it wrong, or if there's more to it, please fill me in. I have not followed the case, but it sounds interesting.
Yes, that’s the gist of it. The compensation is linked to the death of the auditor put in charge of the investigation if I am not mistaken.
He either left or was fired and then had to seek cancer treatment. The Vatican refused to release his medical records, and, due to the state of healthcare in Italy, it was essentially a death sentence due to the wait time to see a specialist and restart the treatment process.
My hopes aren’t high regarding the outcome, but the fact this is even being addressed and getting news coverage seems important.
More basically, the trial has shone a spotlight on the pope’s authority, not as the spiritual head of the Catholic Church but as the temporal sovereign of the Vatican City State. Although modern pontiffs repeatedly have endorsed a separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary as a hallmark of sound democracy elsewhere, inside the Vatican itself the pope has essentially absolute power over both.
Sea change required; while the Catholic Church, like the Greek Orthodox church, needs to be separated and protected from politics, it also needs to be reset so it isn't political at all. No banking, no investing, nothing. Especially no red shoes. Hard cleanse coming up.
What colour smoke for when a verdict is reached, again?
IDK, but it will smell of sulphur and brimstone.
Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong, but ... the defendants are accused of embezzlement, right? And fraud on the way there? The popular perception is that the defendants are guilty and deserve punishment, but there is a chance that Pope Francis will allow it anyway because he was in on it and his relationship to the defendants is akin to Nixon's relationship to the Watergate plumbers?
If I got it wrong, or if there's more to it, please fill me in. I have not followed the case, but it sounds interesting.
Yes, that’s the gist of it. The compensation is linked to the death of the auditor put in charge of the investigation if I am not mistaken.
He either left or was fired and then had to seek cancer treatment. The Vatican refused to release his medical records, and, due to the state of healthcare in Italy, it was essentially a death sentence due to the wait time to see a specialist and restart the treatment process.
My hopes aren’t high regarding the outcome, but the fact this is even being addressed and getting news coverage seems important.
Especially since the real estate was in London.
That's how I heard about it initially, as a story of using the London property transfer as a way of laundering bribes.
But if the Vatican is broke there's no way they'll give the 700M compensation.
Guess they'll have to sell some of those investments
Some important details here:
Sea change required; while the Catholic Church, like the Greek Orthodox church, needs to be separated and protected from politics, it also needs to be reset so it isn't political at all. No banking, no investing, nothing. Especially no red shoes. Hard cleanse coming up.
What a joke, $700 million is pocket change for them.
Thanks for the post. I had not heard about this.
Smh. World is in bad shape. Be cool if Christ returned today.