The Mafia being the enforcement branch of corporate politics.The Vatican has downplayed a warning that Pope Francis could be targeted by the mafia because of his reforms to Holy See financial bodies.
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I’ve been wondering how long he’ll be permitted to hold office.The warning was voiced by Nicola Gratteri, a respected state prosecutor in the southern Calabria region, who said the vicious local mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, is “nervous” the pope is threatening its interests.
“Those who up to now have fed off the power and wealth coming directly from the Church are nervous, upset,” he said in an interview published by the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano this week.
The pope, Gratteri said, “is dismantling the Vatican’s economic centres.
Implied in Gratteri’s comments is that Italy’s mafia has its tentacles in the Vatican’s obscure financial dealings and agencies, some of which have been marred by scandal.
Since taking the papacy in March, Pope Francis has set about cleaning up the Holy See’s vast holdings and making them more transparent.
One of his first steps was to install a special commission tasked with investigating the Vatican’s bank and another to probe Vatican finances in general.
The pope has also called in a US consultancy, Promontory Financial Group, to conduct an external review of the Vatican bank’s money-laundering rules and, more recently, to look into the internal agency handling its many real estate holdings.
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