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PDF versionVatican ridicules report of plot to kill the pope
by John L Allen Jr on Feb. 10, 2012
ROME -- In response to a report today about a secret letter from a former high-ranking Vatican cardinal warning of a plot to kill Pope Benedict XVI within the year, a Vatican spokesperson today said it consists of “ravings which in no way should be taken seriously,” and is “so incredible as to defy comment.”
The report, carried by the Italian paper Il Fatto Quotidiano, is based on a letter allegedly penned by Colombian Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, 82, who served from 1996 to 2006 as the Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy.
In the letter, which carries the date of Dec. 30, 2011, Castrillón supposedly relays information provided by Cardinal Paolo Romeo of Palermo in Sicily, regarding a plot to kill Benedict XVI within twelve months. The letter also speculates that Benedict's successor would be Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan.
The letter also refers to various alleged tensions and power struggles within the Vatican.
Reached today by various news agencies, the Vatican spokesperson, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, dismissed the report as “madness.”
For his part, Romeo issued a statement today from Palermo saying the report is “completely without foundation,” while Scola’s office in Milan had no comment.
The editors of Il Fatto Quotidiano are standing by their story, insisting that the letter attributed to Castrillón is authentic, and that it “raises legitimate questions, not only about the health and security of the pope, but the disconcerting situation in which the church finds itself.”
Another Italian newspaper today, however, described the report as a “spy story worthy of the TV series ‘The Borgias,” suggesting that the alleged letter is a fake.
A front page story in today's
A front page story in today's (2/10/12) Philadelphia Inquirer is about the coroner's investigation of the death of
Cardinal Bevilacqua.
The TV news positioned the
The TV news positioned the coroner's investigation being related to Cardinal Bevilacqua having been notified the previous day that he would have to testify about his part in the handling of those abuse cases.
Albino Luciani (JP1) Remember
Albino Luciani (JP1)
Remember him?
I cannot believe that there
I cannot believe that there still remains remnants who believe the 1978 anti-Catholic Press, especially in Italy, just like today!
Father Lombardi calls the
Father Lombardi calls the report "madness"? Perhaps. Certainly, almost any report from that fascist buffoon Cardinal Castrillon-Hoyos could be similarly labeled.
With the entire Papal Road Show and their cast of shamefully venal and incompetent characters clearly coming apart at the seams, this "madness", however, smells of a modicum of truth. The Italian Mafia are probably getting nervous that too many of their fingers in Vatican pies are being or will soon be exposed to the rays of sunlight by either the press, the international banking community, INTERPOL, or by some loony priest who blabs to Maureen Dowd at the "New York Times".
All of this coming at a time when the windows in Ratzinger's House of Nonsense should be thrown open to be disinfected by that very same sunlight. Something Pope Benedict and his predecessor should have done many years ago.
The cardinal is a very good
The cardinal is a very good letters writer:
Invitation to Cardinal Is Withdrawn
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: April 21, 2010
A former top Vatican cardinal who planned to lead a Latin Mass in honor of Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday at the Basilica in Washington has been disinvited by the conservative Catholic group organizing the event because of fresh controversy over the cardinal’s role in the sexual abuse scandal.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, a Colombian who formerly headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, came under fire last week when a Web site posted a letter he wrote in 2001 praising a French bishop for refusing to hand over to the police a priest who had raped children.
“I congratulate you for not denouncing a priest to the civil administration,” Cardinal Castrillón wrote to Bishop Pierre Pican, who was convicted in France for failing to report sex crimes against children. “You have acted well, and I am pleased to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and of all other bishops in the world, preferred prison to denouncing his son and priest.”
The cardinal compounded the controversy last week when he said at a conference in Spain that Pope John Paul II had authorized the letter and told him to send it to bishops around the world.
The headlines were unsettling to the Paulus Institute, a group of traditionalist Catholics in Washington who had spent three years organizing the Solemn Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The group said it had invited Cardinal Castrillón because he was a prominent voice in the movement to restore the traditional liturgy.
But an advocacy group, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said his participation would further wound the victims of abusive priests.
Paul King, the president of the Paulus Institute, said he and Cardinal Castrillón had agreed on the cancellation. Mr. King cited security concerns and the potential for the abuse issue to overshadow the event. “It becomes the center of attention, when the center of attention should be at the main altar,” he said. (NYT)
This is just so much drama.
This is just so much drama. Don't they worry in the Vatican about being perceived as drama queens? Are these the same drama queens that don't want American women to have birth control? Oh, yeah, I forgot, their drama is that they don't want to pay for American women's birth control. Over in the Vatican, the drama queens are carrying on about stealing and assassinating. In America, they're carrying on about what women should do about their periods. What a sick bunch of men.
“ravings which in no way
“ravings which in no way should be taken seriously”
This is true of most things said by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos
Surely Vatican security
Surely Vatican security understands that the Pope's life, like the life of any prominent world leader such as the President of the United States, is always potentially in danger while appearing in public, and appropriate measures are taken.
Let's not take this for
Let's not take this for granted. Who would have thought that Pope John Paul I would die under bizarre circumstances within 33 days?
Oct. 31, 2006 (CWNews.com) -
Oct. 31, 2006 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI has named Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes to become prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, replacing the retiring Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos.
Generally regarded as a liberal, with a strong commitment to social-justice issues, the Brazilian cardinal was supportive of Latin American theologians who advanced the cause of liberation theology in the 1970s and 1980s. His appointment to a leadership position at the Vatican suggests that Pope Benedict XVI-- a leading critic of liberation theology-- is anxious to hear divergent viewpoints expressed within the Roman Curia.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos: In You....
In Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos,the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Our Lady of Fatima has found a Voice. And should the Holy Father,Pope Benedict XVI happen to choose to ignore this time-tested information...this link provides the unfolding scenario.Let the Vatican Security outfit/authority look into the contents of
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2.http://marysrose.hubpages.com/hub/THE-FATIMA-MESSAGE-AND-THE-21ST-CENTURY-CHURCH-CONCLUDING-POST-PROPHETIC-MISSIONARY-SCRIPT
3.http://evurulobi.hubpages.com/hub/The-Church-And-Global-Security-Introducing-A-Fifth-Gospel-To-Nigeria
4.http://evurulobi.hubpages.com/hub/CHIEF-MATHEW-OLUSEGUN-AREMU-OBASANJO-AND-THE-SEARCH-FOR-THE-SOUL-OF-NIGERIA
5.http://marysrose.hubpages.com/hub/an-open-appeal-to-tell-magazinestanding-on-the-legitimacy-of-the-cause-of-freedom-and-good-governace
The embarrassing publications against the Vatican are just programmed to cut the the Vatican and the Holy Father off from public support and sympathy when the unexpected happens, and in this way create room for a new kind of propaganda by Secularists that will end up handing the Church over to the "New Reformers" for "cleansing" and "repositioning". U.S.A is involved in this plot.Barack Obama is at a game that is also billed to consume him.
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