The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia (32 page)

As further proof that business as usual has persisted at the Vatican
during John Paul II's reign, the Daily Telegraph, London's respected
newspaper, ran an article on November 19, 2001, that identified the
Vatican Bank-along with banks in "cut out" countries such as Mauritius, Macao, Nauru, and Luxembourg-as being one of the major
places in the world for laundering underworld cash.8

John Paul II, throughout one of the longest pontificates in ecclesiastical history, has remained remarkably immune from widespread
criticism. As scandal gives way to scandal, too many investigative
reporters and news commentators refuse to take the pope to task, not
even to question his judgment in allowing the money changers to
remain in the holy temple. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than
in the biography of the Polish pope by Carl Bernstein and Marco
Politi. The very title of the work, His Holiness: John Paul II and the
History of Our Time, betrays the obsequiousness of the authors
before their exalted subject. Throughout the lengthy text, Bernstein
and Politic, two of the world's leading journalists, never seek to investigate the nagging question of the pope's "lost years"; never make
reference to Sindona, Calvi, or Gelli; never press for information
about the Ambrosiano affair and the Sicilian connection; and never
make mention of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank.

The accounts in these pages are not exaggerations and have not
been subjected to editorial amplification for popular consumption.
They are matters of recorded history. They have been captured on
camera and kept as evidence in crime labs, police files, and even
Holocaust museums. They have been documented by leading historians and journalists, such as Richard Hammer, David Yallop, Claire
Sterling, Nick Tosches, and John Cornwell. They have been broadcast by reporters and news commentators throughout the world even
though the matters have not captured the major attention of the
media. Such matters cannot be treated as matters of no substance or
importance. They have impacted all aspects of life-moral, spiritual,
political, and economic-at the turn of the twenty-first century.

In 1977, shortly before his death, Pope Paul VI said: "The smoke
of Satan has entered the Church. It is around the altar."9 When did Satan enter the holy sanctuary of the Roman Catholic Church? When
did the gates of heaven fail to prevail against him? Some say he
entered with the signing of the Lateran Treaty on February 22, 1929.
Others say this occurred at a much earlier date-on a bright October
morning in 312, when Miltiades, the old and feeble bishop of Rome,
knelt before the Roman Emperor Constantine to receive the title of
Pontifex Maximus and the promise of riches beyond measure.

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