Authorities Again Looking Into Murder Of 'God's Banker' As Investigation Leads Right Into The Belly Of The Beast, The Vatican, As Well As Masonic Lodges
The Vatican Bank scandal of the 1980's may open up clues to the death of Pope John Paul I, as well as turning up the 'real culprits' behind the murder of Roberto Calvi, the prominent Italian financier and P2 Masonic Lodge member found hanging from the Blackfriars Bridge in London.
By Greg Szymanski 16 Feb 2006
The story behind the brutal murder of the man called 'God's Banker' has never been fully resolved or his death adequately explained to the American public, a na? public kept from the truth about so many things, including corruption in the Vatican.
The nickname 'God's Banker' was appropriately attached by the Italian press to prominent Italian financier and Banco Ambrosiano chairman, Roberto Calvi, for his illicit role in the decades old scandal involving millions of dollars of stolen money through a wicked and evil financial scam involving the principals controlling the Vatican Bank, including the Mafia, the P2 Masonic Lodge, the Freemasons and the Jesuits.
After the scandal broke in the Italian papers in 1982, Calvi was found hanging from scaffolding under the Blackfriars Bridge in London shortly after midnight on June 18, 1982.
His death was determined a suicide but chilling evidence recently uncovered is proving Calvi was most likely killed for knowing too much and able to point the finger behind the real culprits behind the scandal, including high-level politicians, Church officials and clandestine members of the P2 Masonic group, which Calvi was a member.
And the worldwide ramifications behind Calvi's murder goes far deeper than hundreds of millions in lost loot, but to the very bottom of the dark underworld connections between the cloth, the Masonic groups and the Mafia.
His murder goes right to the heart of the scandal, which many close to the Vatican openly claim could also eventually open up what have been "closed doors" to the murder of Pope John Paul I, the shooting of Pope John Paul II and other clandestine matters, including Masonic affiliations of many high-level Vatican priests, on its face a matter of expulsion from the Church under Canon Law 2338.
And it was the ugly matter of cleaning up the Vatican Bank and outing high-level priests affiliated to cult groups and Masonic lodges that most likely led to the death of Pope John Paul I after only 33 days in office, say sources close to the Vatican.
But it also should be noted the Vatican authorities never fully investigated the death of the Pope as well as never allowing for an autopsy to determine the true cause of death, listed officially as a heart failure with respiratory complications.
Concerning the details of the Vatican bank scandal, it erupted several years after the Pope's death under Pope John Paul II since he allowed for the corruption and underworld dealings to go unchecked, as many close to the Vatican said he bowed to the Jesuit pressure applied by the Black Pope, who was at the heart of the scandal and the beneficiary of much of the stolen Vatican money.
And concerning Calvi, his case recently took a new twist in Rome last March, as Italian prosecutors opened up the case on new evidence implicating several Mafia members accused of Calvi's murder.
Among the evidence brought out in the Rome court proceedings, never covered in the American press but released in Italian papers, was that Calvi was probably still alive when left hanging from the bridge for more than an hour, as British and Italian police and forensic scientists have picked through the original findings and the witness testimony, closely scrutinizing the scaffolding and Calvi's clothes.
And their investigation has revealed dirt under his fingernails and traces of dust from 11 pound bricks studded in his pockets, as well as strange bone lesions and bruises, indicating murder not suicide.
One of the detectives in London investigating the case said this in a London Sunday Times article about the reopened investigation: "We have been applying 21st century forensic and investigative techniques to a 21-year-old crime."
Accordingly Italian prosecutors, Luca Tescaroli and Maria Monteleone believe Mafia bosses ordered Calvi's killing because he withheld millions of dollars of illegal profits, as his death brought down a financial "house of cards" as the Ambrosiano collapsed in Italy's biggest post-war banking scandal.
Although the scandal goes much deeper than the two Mafia figures, Flavio Carboni and Pippo "The Cashier" Calo, one Sardinian businessman and another Australian woman, who at the time of the killing was dating Carboni.
The investigation is also centering on the testimony of Vincenzo Calcara, a Milan caf?wner who served drinks to the suspected killers the day of Calvi's murder, overhearing the decision to impose an ugly death sentence on Calvi.
Calcara, who has co-operated with investigators in the past, testified that a year before the Calvi murder he traveled from Sicily to Rome to deliver suitcases containing $6.5 million in cash to then head of the Vatican Bank, Cardinal Paul Marcinkus of Chicago, and another unnamed Cardinal.
Rome prosecutors are still hoping to question Marcinkus, but he has been kept under protection in Phoenix, Arizona, still being under Vatican diplomatic immunity, as the aging Cardinal, now 81, limits his activities to saying Mass and other minor church duties.
Marcinkus was originally indicted by Italian authorities in the 1980's for his role in the bank scandal, but the case was dropped and settled out of court, the Vatican paying $241 million to end legal proceedings.
Marcinkus was also linked to Calvi as the Vatican insisted he pay back over $154 million, but the links to those involved in the scandal never were fully explored as investigators were refused permission to ever investigate Marcinkus.
Since then sources close to Vatican say that Marcinkus was whisked away to America to keep "his mouth shut," since he was actually only an "innocent fall guy" for the real culprits pulling the strings behind the scandal.
Those sources close to Vatican now contend the Black Pope and the Jesuit Order "in full control of P2 and the Grand Orient Lodges, used Michele Sindona, another accomplice also thought murdered and Calvi, to steal the money, then in Mafia-like fashion had both of them killed.
"Archbishop Marchincus, being publicly responsible for the loss of the funds of Banco Ambrosiano, then agreed to take the fall, subsequently protecting his Jesuit masters from further investigation," said a source close to the Vatican who wished to remain anonymous.
"It is Jesuit Bishop Hnilica, the untouchable, who is really at the bottom of the scandal and fronting for the Black Pope. I believe Marcinkus was a patsy and that Hnilica is the real culprit and thus the Black Pope."
Sources close to Marcinkus also claim that "all along" he was innocent of any serious wrong doing, including having absolutely nothing to do with Calvi's murder or embezzlement of funds.
The source close to the Vatican added:
"Marcinkus does not wish to be convicted for murder and a crime he didn't commit, but realizes, at the same time, his diplomatic immunity status could be withdrawn at anytime by a new order at the Vatican. Also it should be remembered, Bishop Hnilica is a devoted 'Marianist heretic' and was protected by Pope John Paul II. The former Grand Inquisitor, Benedict, is a traditional Catholic and abhors Mary Co-Redemptrix and the false Gospel of Mary. Bishop Hnilica no longer has friends in high places."
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