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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Prelude To Detroit: Giovanni Angelo Becciu Has Been Defrocked But Is Jorge Illegitimate? #SealsMatter

Is Jorge illegitimate, too?

That would mean we have a situation of Reinstatement of Parental Rights, but probably for the purposes of Termination of Parental Rights.

It is just a seals thing.

NOTE TO SELF: MAP OUT THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS OF THE SEALS

Now, you know darn well DeutscheBank is not going to make a peep, which probably why BuzzFeed dropped that leaked traunch of leaked SARs, to divert attention to the first leaked SARs, that were caught up in that bleachbit SAR scandal over there at FinCEN.

BuzzFeed, or rather Jason Leopold, is going ass out, considering that leaking stolen national classified documents, like what Cernovich did, could be considered as some form of statutory treachery.

DIRTY MONEY POURS INTO THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL BANKS.


If you talk about DeutscheBank, well, you do know you are going to end up talking about Detroit, right?

Then, if you talk about Detroit, you are going to talk about GoldmanSachs.

If you say all three names, then, you are going to have to talk about the Clinton Foundation, which never incorporated like the Detroit Land Bank Authority never incorporated, but is hiding Archdiocese of Detroit assets, so they do not have to face an action, where there is going to be alot going on after the defrockings.




I would say the Vatican is liquidating Peter's Pence in, oh, I do not know, some kind of quiet title Corporate Shape Shifting scheme until the next TARP 8.0 comes out so they can go back to doing what they do so well.

Trafficking tiny humans!

#maytheheavensfall

Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal

Giovanni Angelo Becciu & His Alter Boy

ROME (AP) — The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly.

The Vatican provided no details on why Pope Francis accepted Becciu’s resignation in a statement late Thursday. In the one-sentence announcement, the Holy See said only that Francis had accepted Becciu’s resignation as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints “and his rights connected to the cardinalate.”

Becciu, the former No. 2 in the Vatican’s secretariat of state, has been reportedly implicated in a financial scandal involving the Vatican’s investment in a London real estate deal that has lost the Holy See millions of euros in fees paid to middlemen.

The Vatican prosecutor has placed several Vatican officials under investigation, as well as the middlemen, but not Becciu. Becciu has defended the soundness of the original investment and denied any wrongdoing, and it’s not clear whether the scandal itself was behind his resignation or possibly sparked a separate line of inquiry.

But the late-breaking news of his resignation, the severity of his apparent sanction, the Vatican’s tight-lipped release and the unexpected downfall of one of the most powerful Vatican officials all suggested a shocking new chapter in the scandal, which has convulsed the Vatican for the past year.

The last time a cardinal’s rights were removed was when American Theodore McCarrick renounced his rights and privileges as a cardinal in July 2018 amid a sexual abuse investigation. He was subsequently defrocked altogether by Francis last year for sexually abusing adults as well as minors.

Before him, the late Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien in 2015 relinquished the rights and privileges of being a cardinal after unidentified priests alleged sexual misconduct. O’Brien was, however, allowed to retain the cardinal’s title and he died a member of the College of Cardinals, the elite group of churchmen whose main job is to elect a pope.

In the Vatican statement, the Holy See identified Becciu as “His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Becciu,” making clear he remained a cardinal but without any rights.

At 72, Becciu would have been able to participate in a possible future conclave to elect Francis’ successor. Cardinals over age 80 can’t vote. But by renouncing his rights as a cardinal, Becciu has relinquished his rights to take part.

Becciu was the “substitute,” or top deputy in the secretariat of state from 2011-2018, when Francis made him a cardinal and moved him into the Vatican’s saint-making office. He straddled two pontificates, having been named by Pope Benedict XVI and entrusted with essentially running the Curia, or Vatican bureaucracy, a position that gave him enormous influence and power.

The financial problems date from 2014, when the Vatican entered into a real estate venture by investing over $200 million in a fund run by an Italian businessman. The deal gave the Holy See 45% of the luxury building at 60 Sloane Ave. in London’s Chelsea neighborhood.

The money came from the secretariat of state’s asset portfolio, which is funded in large part by the Peter’s Pence donations of Catholics around the world for the pope to use for charity and Vatican expenses.

The Holy See decided in November 2018, after Becciu had left the secretariat of state, to exit the fund, end its relationship with the businessman and buy out the remainder of the building. It did so after Becciu’s successor determined that the mortgage was too onerous and that the businessman was losing money for the Vatican in some of the fund’s other investments.

The buyout deal, however, cost the Holy See tens of millions of euros more and sparked the Vatican investigation that has so far implicated a half-dozen Vatican employees.

Becciu has insisted he wasn’t in power during the 2018 buyout deal and always acted in the sole interests of the Holy See. In the Vatican prosecutor’s initial warrant, Becciu is not named, and it remains unclear if his role in managing the secretariat of state’s vast asset portfolio was connected with the resignation.

His former boss, Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, has said the whole matter was “opaque” and needed to be clarified. Francis, for his part, has vowed to get to the bottom of what he has said was evidence of corruption in the Holy See.

Francis would meet regularly with Becciu in the Italian’s role as prefect of the saint-making office, since every month or two he would present lists of candidates for possible beatification or canonization for Francis to approve.

In addition, since the beginning of his pontificate, Francis had an annual luncheon date at Becciu’s apartment along with 10 priests on the Thursday of Holy Week leading up to Easter. The Vatican always reported the get-togethers were a chance for the pope to chat informally with Becciu and priests of his diocese on the day the church celebrates the institution of the priesthood.

The luncheon didn’t happen this year amid the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.

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2 comments:

  1. https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/sardinia-charity-linked-ousted-vatican-cardinal-searched

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    1. ROME — Italian police searched the offices of a Sardinian charity and diocese on June 9 on behalf of Vatican prosecutors who are investigating a once-powerful cardinal on alleged embezzlement charges.

      Lawyers for Cardinal Angelo Becciu said in a statement that any and all documentation seized would only serve to "confirm the absolute correctness of the behavior" of Becciu, the charity and the diocese of Ozieri.

      Pope Francis sacked Becciu as head of the Vatican’s saint-making office and stripped him of his rights and privileges as a cardinal in September, amid a crackdown on financial mismanagement and corruption in the Holy See.

      Becciu told reporters that the pope had cited documentation the Vatican had received from Italy’s financial police indicating Becciu had embezzled some 100,000 euros ($122,000) in Holy See funds by donating the money to a charity run by his brother.

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