[…] town in Middle America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history […]
[…] and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, Col. Thourot Pichel, said the foundations of Christianity were “about ready to face destruction” from the “world menace […]
[…] part of Yugoslavia. This opening in Mills’ legal career occurred in 1981 at about the time that the body of Roberto Calvi, a central figure in the Vatican Bank scandal, was found hanging under Blackfriers Bridge. (4) Mills quickly became a partner in the new law firm, and the London end was renamed Carnelutti-McKenzie-Mills […]
[…] because the Soviet state was afraid of the Pope’s influence in Poland. But there was another drama rumbling away parallel to the Solidarity story: the whole P2/Calvi/Ambrosiano/Gelli/ Vatican finances mess was just coming to the surface at the same time. Again, to her credit, Sterling doesn’t duck this entirely. On p. 142, for example, […]
A man with Friends The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope Nigel West HarperCollins, London, 2000, £19.99 Let’s dispose of the ‘Third Secret’ nonsense. West claims that Pope John – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third secret’ […]
[…] repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia as a predominantly Muslim nation, its threat was far greater than “Christian” Croatia’ (emphasis added). Now the author is here discussing a theory […]
[…] the head when the United States swung round to the Soviet view. The scheme, or a similar one, continued a ghostly, post-war existence for a while. The Vatican supported it. There was an active branch of Intermarium in Rome and senior Vatican priests and bishops became officers of the organisation. Intermarium was one of […]
[…] German’, said Helen. And in the same summer he was involved in the vain attempt by HMG to enlist the support, even covert and discreet, of the Vatican to halt the persecutions and exterminations in Nazi-occupied Europe. In his book Who Is My Liege? Young gives an authoritative account of this approach through Monsignor […]
[…] of Baghdad revered by Sunni and Shi’a alike, who located their greatest religious shrines in the city. ‘Assume for a moment that across the road from the Vatican is the shrine of Martin Luther, and then you can imagine what Baghdad means for both Shi’a and Sunni Muslims.’ US/UK invaders deviously encouraged fear among […]
[…] Circle’s present members include Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet’s son, is one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports […]
