A Money-Smuggling Scandal Threatens to Sink the Vatican Bank. It sounds like a thriller plot: A Vatican cleric, a spy, and a financier are accused of conspiring to smuggle €20 million ($26 million) out of Switzerland aboard a private jet. In fact, it’s the latest scandal to hit the Vatican bank, prompting Pope Francis to make sweeping management changes.
The Holy See removed the bank’s longtime director and deputy director on July 1, three days after Monsignor Nunzio Scarano and two other men were arrested in connection with the alleged smuggling scheme. Scarano has denied the allegations. Since his installation in March, the pope also has appointed a trusted aide to help supervise the bank and named a special commission to investigate charges of corruption and money laundering that have dogged the institution for decades. The bank also is to start publishing its financial accounts for the first time. Perhaps the most colorful twist in the saga was the arrest on June 28 of Monsignor Scarano. ARGENTINE • Jorge Bergoglio n'est pas le pape des pauvres. Parmi les centaines de courriels que j’ai reçus, j’en ai retenu un : "Je n’en crois pas mes yeux.
Je suis si angoissée et furieuse que les bras m’en tombent. Il est arrivé à ses fins. C’est la personne idéale pour cacher la corruption morale, un expert ès cachotteries. " Le message est signé de Graciela Yorio, la sœur du prêtre Orlando Yorio, qui a dénoncé Jorge Mario Bergoglio comme le responsable de son enlèvement et des actes de torture qu’il a subis pendant cinq mois en 1976. Il n’a jamais eu connaissance de la déclaration de Jorge Mario Bergoglio devant le tribunal oral fédéral n°5, où il a affirmé n’avoir appris que récemment l’existence de jeunes enfants kidnappés, après la fin de la dictature. Un jésuite qui se fera appeler François Je ne suis pas certain que Jorge Mario Bergoglio ait été élu pour cacher la corruption morale qui a rendu Joseph Ratzinger impuissant. Apostropher les profiteurs et prêcher la docilité aux opprimés.
Jésuites. Opus Dei. Critics. Vatican introduces new security measures after Vatileaks scandal. Slovenian priest, Mitja Leskovar, an anti-espionage expert nicknamed 'Monsignor 007', is in charge of implementing the new security procedures with the identity cards expected to be introduced from January 1. The security shake-up was revealed after Claudio Sciarpelletti, the computer expert convicted of aiding and abetting the pope's former butler Paolo Gabriele in the Vatileaks scandal, dropped his appeal on Saturday. The move came as the three judges who assessed the case raised doubts about Sciarpelletti's credibility and the friendship between the two men. Sciarpelletti was convicted in November of aiding and abetting Gabriele, who himself was convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to an Italian journalist in an embarrassing security breach that rocked the Vatican earlier this year.
Ai partecipanti alla Plenaria del Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace, Benedetto XVI, 3 dicembre 2012. Sala del Concistoro Lunedì, 3 dicembre 2012 Signori Cardinali, venerati Fratelli nell’Episcopato e nel Sacerdozio, cari fratelli e sorelle! Sono lieto di accogliervi in occasione della vostra Assemblea Plenaria. Saluto il Cardinale Presidente, che ringrazio per le cortesi parole rivoltemi, come pure Monsignor Segretario, gli Officiali del Dicastero e tutti voi, Membri e Consultori, convenuti per questo importante momento di riflessione e di programmazione. La vostra Assemblea si celebra nell’Anno della fede, dopo il Sinodo dedicato alla nuova evangelizzazione, nonché – come è stato detto – nel cinquantesimo anniversario del Concilio Vaticano II e – tra pochi mesi – dell’Enciclica Pacem in terris del beato Papa Giovanni XXIII.
Si tratta di un contesto che già di per sé offre molteplici stimoli. La Dottrina sociale, come ci ha insegnato il beato Papa Giovanni Paolo II, è parte integrante della missione evangelizzatrice della Chiesa (cfr Enc. Vatican : le banquier de Dieu vend des armes. Huit mois après le licenciement d'Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, la banque du Vatican - l'IOR -, au centre de plusieurs scandales financiers, a depuis vendredi un nouveau président : l'Allemand Ernst von Freyberg.
Mais loin de mettre fin aux polémiques sur l'IOR, cette nomination désoriente encore davantage les fidèles. Cinquante-cinq ans, avocat marié à une Française, aristocrate de grande lignée, chevalier de l'ordre de Malte, von Freyberg a une grande expérience de la finance internationale. Mais il est également président des chantiers navals Blohm & Voss de Hambourg, qui fabriquent des yachts de luxe et... des navires de guerre. Le site de l'entreprise arbore fièrement les photos de frégates lourdement armées. Une activité que beaucoup jugent incompatible avec une responsabilité aussi stratégique que la présidence de l'IOR. "Un choix paradoxal" "C'est un choix paradoxal, affirme le père Venanzio Milani, responsable de l'agence de presse des missionnaires, Misna. Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican. Démission du Pape: l'envers du décor.