Vatican Bank Under Scrutiny

Italian prosecutors are investigating the Vatican bank on suspicion of involvement in money laundering, La Repubblica daily reported on Tuesday.

The newspaper said the Institute of Religious Works (IOR) and 10 Italian banks, including major institutions such as Intesa San Saolo and Unicredit, were the target of the investigation.

'The hypothesis of the investigators is that subjects with their fiscal residence in Italy are using the IOR as a 'screen' to hide different dealings, such as fraud or tax evasion,' the paper said.'

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Vatican Bank Charged With Money-Laundering

The Bank of the Vatican has been accused of laundering USD 200 million by proxy through an Italian creditor, a report indicates.

The allegation of the Vatican bank's financial corruption has been made by an Italian magazine that pointed to the financial institute's purported involvement in stealth fiscal transactions —via several accounts —with Italy's UniCredit Bank, Russia Today television network quoted the Panorama magazine as reporting.

“This corruption is continuing on a regular basis in the Vatican,” claimed Janathan Levy, a lawyer familiar with the bank.'

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Vatican Orders Bishop Williamson To Recant on Holocaust

Belief in the rabbinic dogma of the "Shoah" is the Vatican's new criterion for qualifying as a shepherd of Christ's flock

Casting doubt on execution gas chambers in Auschwitz is now a de facto heresy in the eyes of the Catholic Church

The Vatican says it has ordered a controversial bishop who denies the gas chambers to "distance himself" from his views "in an absolutely unequivocal and public manner."

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Pope Speaks Out Against Greedy Money-men Who Sparked Credit Crisis

The pontiff launched a fierce attack on the financial institutions responsible for the economic downturn, and said their actions were directly linked to world poverty and starvation.

"The unbridled pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake creates a risk that in the world the rich will live in an ivory tower surrounded by a desert of poverty and degradation," he wrote.

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I nearly pissed myself when i read that. Such hypocracy from the super rich moneygrabbing vatican!

Vatican Told Bishops To Cover Up Sex Abuse

The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
The Observer has obtained a 40-year-old confidential document from the secret Vatican archive which lawyers are calling a 'blueprint for deception and concealment'. One British lawyer acting for Church child abuse victims has described it as 'explosive'.

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Read the original 1962 Vatican document ....

The Last Will And Testament Of God's Banker

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus ran the Vatican bank.
When the Cicero native died, he left behind a mysterious financial scandal. But he also left a will that the I-Team has obtained.
Paul Marcinkus was the highest ranking American churchman ever in Rome.
For nearly two decades, Marcinkus was the pope’s C.F.O. with control of the Vatican’s vast wealth.
But that was also Marcinkus’ undoing. He provoked a billion-dollar scandal that he never explained, which sent the I-Team looking for answers in the last will and testament of God’s banker.

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