Drawing Aside the Purple Curtain
The Papal System
Today: an Analysis of the News
in the Vatican
Shaun
Willcock
Drugs and Sodomy in the Vatican
According to an article
which first appeared on 28 June in the Italian newspaper, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Vatican police, alerted to strange shenanigans
going on in the flat of a monsignor, a man who was the secretary of a senior
Roman Catholic cardinal, raided the flat and broke up a drug-fuelled homosexual
party.[i] The flat, which is in the Vatican itself, is not far from the Santa Marta residence of
the pope of Rome, Francis I. It is in
the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, which belongs to the Vatican’s “Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith” – which used to be known as the Inquisition. Be it noted,
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the very institution in
charge of supposedly dealing with priestly sex abuse cases!
Neighbours living in the
building had complained of the “constant coming and going” of young men, and of
noisy parties being held in the flat.[ii]
The Italian article said
that the secretary was also entrusted with a luxury car with Vatican number
plates, which enabled him to transport the drugs into the Vatican without being
troubled by Vatican or Italian police.
The Vatican reacted –
apparently by hustling the offender off into a “retreat”! The monsignor was taken for detox at a
medical facility, and was later said to be “in retreat” in a monastery
somewhere in Italy.[iii] This is usual Vatican practice when one of
their own is bust in some scandal of a sexual nature – he is hustled off to
some secret location.
Then on 30 June, in a piece
published on a French website, the monsignor-secretary was named: he was Luigi
Capozzi. And so it came out that
Capozzi’s boss is the Romish cardinal, Francesco Coccopalmerio. He is head of the Vatican’s Pontifical
Council for Legislative Texts, which makes him “like the Church’s Chief
Justice, the chief interpreter of the Church’s laws.”[iv] A very influential man in the Vatican
indeed. And surely he was not unaware of
his secretary’s behaviour. As one high
prelate commented: “Is it possible that he [Coccopalmerio) never noticed
anything? Yet he often said that they
[Coccopalmerio and Capozzi] worked together until late.”[v] Certainly, considering how the monsignor was
enjoying such benefits “above his pay grade” so to speak, it indicates that he
was being protected by some very powerful authority figures within the Vatican
itself. ARTICLE CONTINUES HERE:
[i]. The Moynihan Letters,
July 28, 2017. MoynihanReport@gmail.com.
[ii]. The Times of Israel, 6
July 2017. www.timesofisrael.com. Also National Catholic Register, 8 July 2017.
www.ncregister.com.
[iii]. The Times of Israel, 6
July 2017. Also National Catholic Register, 8 July 2017.
[iv]. The Moynihan Letters,
July 28, 2017.
[v]. The Moynihan Letters,
July 28, 2017.
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