Today, Vatican Radio employs nearly four hundred people ... Nearly 1/12th of its entire budget. ibid.
It was television that turned the Pope into a celebrity. ibid.
In February last year Pope Benedict stunned the world by being the first pope to resign for six hundred years. This is the story of the events that helped undermine his papacy, and challenged the Roman Catholic Church to this day. Secrets of the Vatican, Channel 4 2014
It’s a story of crime, corruption and cover-up. It’s a story of sexual hypocrisy. It’s also a story of leaked documents, exposing a bitter internal power struggle. Now a new Pope, Francis, must battle the forces that overwhelmed his predecessor. ibid.
During Benedict’s papacy the full scale of child sex abuse – this cover-up – would be revealed. ibid.
A huge administrative reform is currently underway. ibid.
But he [Benedict] has yet to act decisively on the issue of child sex abuse by priests. ibid.
The Vatican – seat of the Catholic Church – covered up the murder of one of its popes: in September 1978 John Paul I was pope for only 33 days. Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s2e3: Vatican, History 2012
John Paul I had seen corruption in the Vatican Bank first hand. ibid.
An artist so revered that even his rival Raphael painted him – Michelangelo. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Rome: A History of the Eternal City III: The Rebirth of God’s City BBC 2012
In 1512 a heavenly vision was unveiled – the Creation narrative of Genesis has never been so sublimely rendered. ibid.
The rebuilding of St Peter’s would last a hundred and twenty years. ibid.
St Peter’s – the largest church in the world. ibid.
The papacy and the kingdom would be in a standoff for sixty years. ibid.
The Vatican state became the world’s smallest nation. ibid.
The Anunnaki alien star-gods were often shown holding pine-cones. The Vatican’s most famous icons also hold pine-cones acknowledging the Anunnaki brotherhood ... The Vatican uses Ancient Anunnaki and Babylonian symbolism in all its ceremonies ... Britain is full of symbols of the Anunnaki reptilian brotherhood. Chris Everard, Secret Space II
The Nephilim was very human-like Beings of great stature. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the tallest man in medical history as Robert Wadlow, who was eight feet eleven inches. If we compare him to a twelve-foot Biblical giant, it makes him look like a shortie. This ancient Sumerian tablet seems to illustrate the same kind of proportions. There is also supporting physical evidence that giants did exist in these times. In the late 1950s a forty-seven-inch human femur was found in Turkey. This would make the Being between fourteen and sixteen feet tall. It is rumoured that buried below the Vatican are the skeletal remains of giants which once walked the Earth. The evidence is hidden by the Catholic Church because it is a truth they do not want in the public domain. The Bible goes on to say that God flooded the Earth to destroy the Giants. The Great Flood is spoken about in many other religious texts. And probably was a real event. The Bible is also littered with references to new technology. Richard D Hall, RichPlanet online
A scaled-down model of St Peter’s Basilica was constructed in Rome from 10,000,000 used aluminium cans. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
This is the body of God’s banker. At 7:30 a.m. June 18th 1982 his body was found swinging from Blackfriars Bridge. The cause of death – asphyxiation by hanging ... Roberto Calvi was the man people called God’s banker. Now technically he was more like the Pope’s banker but that doesn’t sound quite as impressive. Anyway, he earned his rather grand title by becoming head of Italy’s largest private bank, and more importantly, getting mixed up in the Vatican’s complicated finances. Now he was a powerful and well-connected man. So why did he end up hanging from scaffolding here under Blackfrairs Bridge in London? Calvi wasn’t just connected to the Vatican. He also had links with the Mafia and Italian Freemasons. He had a lot to hide and a lot of secrets to tell. Simon Reeve, Conspiracy: The Pope and the Mafia Millions, 2004
Everything really started to go wrong for Calvi when the debts at his bank spiralled out of control. It got worse: Calvi was arrested for currency fraud. During his time inside he started to talk. He committed the ultimate banker’s crime and began spilling his clients’ secrets, With his bank facing financial collapse Calvi now had every reason to flee Italy ... The Vatican, the Mafia, the Italian Freemasons, he knew all their darkest secrets and was threatening to expose them. ibid.
He had enough drugs back at his flat to do the job quietly and probably painlessly. There was also no suicide note. Calvi’s family found it hard to accept the original Inquest verdict of Suicide. A second Inquest returned an Open verdict ... There were no struggle marks on Calvi’s body. ibid.
There was no shortage of suspects. When Calvi fled to London he took a briefcase along with him ... It was full of incriminating documents linking Banco Ambrosiano to all sorts of shady dealings. And the contents were said to be so important to Calvi that he even slept with the briefcase; he never let it out of his sight. But after Calvi’s death the briefcase was nowhere to be found. ibid.
Then in a bizarre twist the briefcase surfaced on Italian television. The contents were poured over live on Italian national TV. It had all sorts of interesting stuff in it – Calvi’s wallet, his driving licence, even a false passport. But by this stage of course most of the incriminating documents had vanished. So could Calvi really have been killed for the contents of his briefcase? ibid.
Calvi was a member of a Masonic lodge in Italy the members of which wore black robes and called each other Friars – Black Friars. ibid.
The head honcho at the P2 was this man – Lichio Gelli. Gelli got Calvi to join his P2 lodge so that he could turn Calvi’s bank into the prefect vehicle for financing the P2’s rather questionable activities. Like backing right-wing dictators in Latin America. And accepting CIA money to cement terrorism. And then there’s the arms dealing. P2 were alleged to have supported the Argentine government in the Falkland’s war, even supplying them with Exocet missiles. All of these funds passed through Calvi’s bank. ibid.
Most churches opposed the effort to remove Saddam Hussein, and the pope disgraced himself utterly by issuing a personal invitation to the wanted war criminal Tariq Aziz, a man responsible for the state murder of children. Not only was Aziz welcomed at the Vatican as the senior Catholic member of a ruling fascist party (not the first time that such an indulgence had been granted), he was then taken to Assisi for a personal session of prayer at the shrine of Saint Francis, who apparently used to lecture to birds. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p34
Would you care to see my video of the advice given by Cardinal Alfonso Lopezde Trujillo, the Vatican’s president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, carefully warning his audience that all condoms are secretly made with many microscopic holes, through which the AIDS virus can pass? ibid. p45
The Vatican, and its vast network of dioceses, has in the past decade alone been forced to admit complicity in a huge racket of child rape and child torture, mainly but by no means exclusively homosexual, in which known pederasts and sadists were shielded from the law and reassigned to parishes where the picking of the innocent and defenseless were often richer. ibid. p51
The collusion continued even after the war, as wanted Nazi criminals were spirited to South America by the infamous ‘rat line’. It was the Vatican itself, with its ability to provide passports, documents, money, and contacts, which organized the escape network and also the necessary shelter and succor at the other end. ibid. p240
A million pilgrims from across the world are crammed into St Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets. Inside the Vatican Vaults, Discovery 2016, canonisation day for two former popes
In the darkest days of World War II St Peter’s was shrouded in the shadow of the swastika. Meanwhile, Pius XII, who some have called Hitler’s Pope, was actually plotting against him. Pope vs Hitler, National Geographic 2016
For years the Vatican had relied on a network of Catholic informers inside the Reich. ibid.
Before the conspirators set out to kill the Fuhrer they would seek the blessing of the Pope. ibid.
Wolf’s Lair 20th July 1944: With the country staggering hopelessly towards annihilation, they would make their final stand. ibid.
That night [20th July 1944] the Fuhrer appeared on the radio to quell the fast-spreading rumours of his demise. ibid.
Pope Benedict’s resignation last month shocked the Catholic Church and left the Vatican in disarray. His successor will face many challenges from recurrent sexual scandals to concerns about financial impropriety at the Vatican’s own bank, the IOR or Institute of Religious Works. In 2011 we investigated allegations that the IOR had been involved in money laundering. Vatican Inc, Al Jazeera 2013
We examine the claims of shocking scandals and brutal murders surrounding the Roman Catholic Church. Was the Church guilty of murdering its own Pope – John Paul I? Was the Vatican in league with the Americans to help war criminals guilty of genocide escape justice? And was the Vatican involved with the murder of the man known as God’s banker? Conspiracy s1e8: Murder at the Vatican, Channel 5 2015
Mehmet Ali Agca: He was the only man prosecuted for this crime but many questioned his motives from the very beginning. But if Ali Agca was a hired gun, he wasn’t saying who paid him. ibid.
In the early 1980s one name was synonymous with corporate corruption on a global scale: Roberto Calvi. As one of Italy’s top bankers it’s claimed he was profiting from vast sums of money laundered by the Mafia and the Vatican. A plot that some say led to his death in London and a murder enquiry which is still open today. Calvi was nicknamed God’s banker. ibid.
Before he could make any changes, 33 days into his new role, he was found dead. Officially, it was said to be a heart attack. But there are many who claim he was murdered by his fellow priests and the Vatican got away with it. ibid.