Vatican's Scandal Leaks Exposes The Pope's Secrets, Say Report
For centuries, the Vatican has been ruled by a code of secrecy and honor like the Mafia, until the recent six months have turned it upside down.
There were some highly confidential letters written to the pope and his close associates. These letters were originally written in code and later put into a book, Sua Santità by Gianluigi Nuzzi that offered translation for its readers. The bestseller leaked a string of scandals that took the Vatican for a ride this year. Here are a few of them:
- In early June, the head of the Vatican bank was ousted for possessing documents showing the Church circumventing European money-laundering regulations.
- The most damaging of the leaks is another powerful figure in the Vatican besides the pope: the 77-year-old secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone. These leaks have blamed the pope’s butler—who may end up going to jail for years.
- In 2006, Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of the highly conservative order, the Legionaries of Christ. After decades of being honored and held in high esteem, Maciel was exposed as a rapist, a pedophile, and a drug addict who had had families by two different women, and who abused his own children.
The anonymous author named 'Maria' of the leaks spoke about what they could no longer keep secret as they put aside notes to write this book years ago:
“After the death of Karol Wojtyla”—John Paul II’s baptismal name—“I started to put aside copies of certain documents of which I came into possession through my professional activities,”“In the first years I did it sporadically,” Maria went on. “When I saw that the truth which was published in the newspapers and in official discourse did not correspond to the truth in these papers, I put them all to one side to try to go deeper and to understand.
“In recent years the situation has worsened, hypocrisy reigns unchallenged. The scandals multiply ... In some moments in one’s life, either you are a man or you aren’t. The difference? Just the courage to say or do what you consider just. My courage was to make known the most agonizing events within the Church. To make public certain secrets, stories small and large which never get beyond those bronze gates.”One courageous bishop went to work to try and understand the Vatican's finances which resulted in scandal and waste. Through the leaked letters, this bishop Carlo Maria Viganò told the pope he was astonished by what he found in the Vatican’s accounts.
He went to work slashing grossly inflated budgets—for example, reducing the cost of the Vatican’s lifesize nativity scene in the center of St. Peter’s Square from $700,000 to $400,000; and saving more than $1 million in the maintenance of the gardens, which he funneled into renovating the pope’s central heating system. In all, Viganò claimed to have converted a deficit of some $10 million into a surplus of $43.5 million. But in the process, he made powerful enemies, and on March 22, 2011, Bertone curtly told Viganò that he was fired.Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, who appalled millions of American Catholics with his long cover-up of priestly pedophilia, was allowed to preside over Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the most important basilicas in Rome. The Church also lost donations after the pedophilia scandal was exposed. Between 2009 and 2010, donations deceased 20% from $82.5 million to 67 million. The Vatican experiences its first deficit in years in 2011 when they lost $19 million dollars.
We can tell that its kind of like Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). They have reined for over 30 years as the number one Christian television network in the United States. Just has their secret scandal is being revealed, The Vatican has no exceptions. It will crumble little by little as people get tired of following corrupted churches and their leaders.
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