Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat
February 11, 2013
Left, The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone
To understand the Pope's resignation,
Kevin Annett says, "Follow the money."
"What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank."
by Kevin Annett
(henrymakow.com)
Theories are abounding now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as usual, finding the truth behind the world's oldest corporation is simply to follow the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money.
First of all, let's put to rest, the fallacy that "looming scandals" about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger's resignation. That's just the cover story.
Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists.
What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR). That dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the needed leverage to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne.
We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when "Vatileaks" broke a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger's loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope's dirty secrets to the Italian media.
In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger's secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State's office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to.
The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May.
Tedeschi had embraced the call of the European Parliament for "greater transparency" by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office.
But even with Tedeschi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired. Even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR's assets and practices "insecure". A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one.
It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year (the same month that Tedeschi was sacked,) to prepare the world for Ratzinger's removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning. He is not only a primary contender for the pope's position but a key player in the IOR.
During my second speaking tour in Rome, in the spring of 2010, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of these politicians,
"Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"
SCAPEGOAT
So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face-saving lie has arrived.
Putting lipstick on a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley MacLaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion.
Tarcisio Bertone represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia, who are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman Catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with,
"You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets."
Bertone, or whoever from the ranks of his victorious faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops.
"We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That's how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse" said an Italian media commentator recently.
It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth-raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as "Joe the Rat".
But Ratzinger was a made to order object-of-hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed.
I doubt that it's coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope's involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy.
But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing.
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I wrote to Leo Zagami in Rome, asking if Annett's accusations have merit. His reply:
Yes and there is much more to it I had previously published in my latest books and I am coming out in Italy next month in March 2013 with two new books one called The Invisible Masters of the NWO (I Maestri Invisibili del NWO) published by TERRE SOMMERSE that brings some new answers to the Ratzinger story as I had already wrote about the link with the murder plot and his possible resignation one year ago and all the strange developments connected to it that took place in 2012 including the scandal of the MPS Bank (Monte dei Paschi di Siena) tied to the IOR and international Freemasonry and the visit in March 2013 of Queen Elisabeth II in Rome , this book is co-written with journalist Enrica Perucchietti. Leo Zagami is as you know considered even in Italy on the biggest experts on Vatican secrets and another book will came out by two of the most respected Vaticanist Feruccio Pinotti e Giacomo Galeazzi Vaticano massone. Un patto segreto e una finta inimicizia
that will include a chapter on Vatican Freemasonry and the latest events by myself Leo Zagami.
And I have been now been offered to write also a instant book with my journalist colleague Enrica Perucchietti on the particularity of the month of March as all Catholics will become sedevacantist for once.
Second Comment from Richard on the Prophesy of the Popes:
Cardinal Bertone is the Secretary of State of the Roman Curia, the structure that actually runs the Roman Church. As with the President of the United States, the Papal role is largely figurative. Theoretically he heads the Curia, but the real boss is Secretary of State.
Now, here's something that occurred to me tonight from the information that's come out.
The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with current pope Benedict XVI's successor.
(Left, Bertone giving an expert Masonic grip to a brother in Australia in 2007.) The Prophecy of the Popes calls this last Pope "Peter the Roman". Nobody can resist a good prophecy. There's been buzz today on Catholic channels about Bertone's full name being Cardinal Tarcisio PIETRO Bertone of Romano, Turin, Italy.
You see the prophecy says this last Pope will pontificate over the destruction of Rome. A lot of bets were placed last year that Benedict XVI would be gone in 2012 so the last Pope could be seated before December 21st. (Only problem was that Catholics never used the Mayan long count Calendar. - a little humor there..)
Rumors that Bertone's election is a done deal because of his power with the Curia and the Italian faction may be overstated. Of 120 cardinal electors, only 28 are Italians, and nearly half are Hispanic, African and various Asian and others.
Marcio (Masonic Rep of Brazil) said (February 14, 2013):
After the masonic coup d'etat in 1958 and its consequent Vatican II Council, the mob, the masons and the Jews have ruled Rome and it has become the Babylonian Prostitute of the Apocalypse. The Antichrist has had his seat there until now (John Paul II was "his" best vicar, followed by John XXIII and Paul VI - that is why John Paul - a continuation of the crime story). Traditional Catholics have clearly denounced that.
There must be many reasons for the Popes resignation from office, and that may be one of them.
But what impresses me most is the Italian politicians, some of the most dishonest ones on earth (Brazilian ones have overtaken them), even involved with the mafia mob and undeniably masonic, are saying that about the Pope. Simply laughable, not to say hypocritical.
I bet the next Pope will be either Asian or African (they are better Catholics than American and European clergy). And he will probably be much younger in order to be able to deal with the ordeals. He does not need to be Italian, Roman or European to be a true Roman to be crowned a successor of St. Peter. It has to do with his attitude. Anyway, the kingdom of Antichrist has counted days and we must be a few years away from The Day (as a rock song said in the 80's, "it is the final countdown"). I bet on a Phillipino cardinal. Time will tell...