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Pope Francis on Sunday called insulting and unfounded what he called the “insinuations” by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who disappeared 40 years ago about his predecessor
Pope Francis on Sunday called insulting and unfounded what he called the “insinuations” by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who disappeared 40 years ago about his predecessor as pontiff, Saint John Paul II.
Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican minister, did not return home on June 22, 1983 after a music lesson in Rome. He was 15 years old and lived with his family in the Vatican. His disappearance it is one of Italy’s most enduring mysteries.
The case opened a new chapter on Tuesday when his brother Pietro met with Vatican chief prosecutor Alessandro Diddi, who was given free rein by Francis to get to the bottom of the case.
After talking to Diddy for over eight hours, Pietro Orlandi appeared in a television program in which he played part of an audio recording in the voice of a man Orlandi said was part of a group from organized crime with whom the Italian media have been speculating for decades that he could be involved in the disappearance of his sister.
The voice of the alleged mobster says that more than 40 years ago they carried the girls to the Vatican to insult them, and that Pope John Paul II knew about it.
Orlandi then said in his own words on the program, “I’m told that Wojtyla (surname of Pope John Paul II) went out at night with two Polish monsignors and, of course, not in order to consecrate houses.
The comments caused a storm and were condemned by Vatican officials in recent days, before the Pope himself raised the issue in his noon address to some 20,000 people in St. Peter’s Square.
“Confident that I am interpreting the feelings of believers all over the world, I express my gratitude to the memory of Saint John Paul II, who these days has become the object of offensive and unfounded insinuations,” the message says. Pope Francisco.
The crowd, mostly Italians, burst into applause.
On Saturday, Diddy called Pietro Orlandi’s lawyer Laura Sgro. The Vatican said that she took advantage of the privileges of a lawyer and a client. The agency was informed about this by Sgro. Reuters Sunday that Pope Juan Pablo II This was not in his conversation with Diddy, who added in a text message: “I never doubted the sanctity of John Paul II.”
Orlandi said Reuters on Sunday by telephone that it was “right for Francis to defend John Paul II”. Orlandi added that during his TV appearance, he “repeated what others were saying. I didn’t see it, of course.”
Vatican editorial director Andrea Tornielli had previously denounced Orlandi’s comments as a “seedy” vilification of the pontiff who led Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005 and was canonized in 2014.
Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, who was John Paul II’s secretary throughout his tenure, called Orlandi’s actions “ignoble, unrealistic, ludicrous, if not tragic, even criminal”.
Over the past four decades, graves have been opened, bones have been unearthed from forgotten graves, and many conspiracy theories have emerged to determine what happened to Emanuela Orlandi.
The case, which has been the subject of periodic investigations in Italy and the Vatican, has regained worldwide attention after being made public late last year. Netflix series “Vatican Girl”.
Now he would be 55 years old.
Reuters
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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