The pope’s iron fist, from the account of a victim,
the dismissed Auditor-General of the Vatican
Sept. 25, 2017
Perhaps in all the furor over the publication of the CORRECTIO, another report concerning the Vatican – more specifically, this pope, and if not him directly, then his trusted henchmen – probably did not get the attention it deserved. It illustrates almost graphically and visually the thuggery and skullduggery that appears to characterize the ugly manner with which the Bergoglio Vatican deals with those who have displeased Bergoglio, especially if the victim happened to be employed only on his say-so. Sandro Magister chronicled it thus:
On the afternoon of Sunday, September 24, the press office of the Holy See issued the following statement:
“The Holy See takes cognizance with surprise and regret of the statements released by Mr. Libero Milone, former Auditor General. In this way he has fallen short of the agreement to keep confidential the reasons for his resignation of the Office. It is recalled that, on the basis of the Statutes, the task of the Auditor General is that of analyzing the balance sheets and accounts of the Holy See and of its associated administrations. It turns out, unfortunately, that the Office directed by Mr. Milone, going beyond its authority, illegally engaged an outside Company to carry out investigative activities on the private lives of representatives of the Holy See.
“This, in addition to constituting a crime, irreparably damaged the trust placed in Mr. Milone, who, confronted with his actions, freely agreed to submit his resignation. Assurance is given, finally, that the inquiries were conducted with every scruple and with respect for the person.”
The statement refers to the interview with Libero Milone in
Corriere della Sera], the
Wall Street Journal. Reuters news agency, and SkyTg24, made public on the morning of the same day:
> "Volevano arrestarmi. Ecco la mia verità sull'addio al Vaticano"
(“They wanted to arrest me – here is the truth about my leaving the Vatican”)
Milone’s [forced]resignation took place on June 19. Without any explanation at the time, from him or from the Holy See.
After the summer, however, the former auditor general - who says he is “one thousand percent innocent” - decided to reveal to four journalistic outlets gathered at his lawyer’s office what really happened that day.
First at the Secretariat of State:
“Received by the Sostituto (Deputy Secretary of State) Archbishop Becciu,
I was told that the relationship of trust with the Pope had been damaged: the Holy Father was asking for my resignation. I asked for the reasons, and was provided with a few that seemed incredible to me. I responded that the accusations were false, and constructed to deceive both him and Francis; and that in any case I would speak about them with the pope. But the response was that this was not possible.”
Then at the Gendarmeria:
“I recall that at a certain point captain Domenico Giani shouted in my face that I had to admit everything, confess. But confess what? I had not done anything.”
And then, at his office as Auditor General of Vatican accounts:
“They held everyone inside the offices, including the secretaries, until 6:30 in the evening. And they ordered us to hand over all the documents. One of the vice-auditors was absent. And the Vatican firemen were called in to break open filing cabinet and desk.”
Among the accusations was none other than that to which the September 24 statement of the Holy See refers:
“They showed me two receipts made out to a single provider, and accused me of having committed a misappropriation of funds: meaning embezzlement, as a public official. I saw that both receipts bore the stamp of my office, but only one had been signed by me. The other had a scribble as a signature. They were accounts for countersurveillance measures, for 28,000 euro, to clear the offices of any bugs.
Moreover, the decree of the tribunal spoke only of my accounting responsibilities, without citing anti-laundering supervision and the fight against corruption, as contained in the statutes. And with this they also accused me of having improperly sought information about Vatican representatives. I discovered that they had been investigating me for more than seven months.”
This forced his resignation, which the statement would expressly say had been given “freely”:
“Since I asserted my innocence, Giani told me that I was either going to confess or risk spending the night in the gendarmeria. If your object is to get me to resign, I resign. I am going to prepare the letter, I said. They replied that it was already ready. They went to get it. I read it and said: I am not signing this. Because it was June 19, but the letter was dated May 12. We made a mistake: this is what they said.”
After which came the fruitless attempts to meet with the pope:
“In mid-July I wrote to the pope through a secure channel and I believe he got the letter. I explained that I was the victim of a frameup, and astonished by the contemporaneous exit of Cardinal Pell. No reply. Had the relationship of trust really been damaged? But then the pope could have called me and told me so.”
A pope who, moreover, had cut off relations with Milone some time before:
“After April 1, 2016 I didn’t see him again. In September I asked to see him but they told me to make the request through the secretariat of state. I made two of them, in writing. Never a reply. Before I met with him every 4-5 weeks. I believe that the pope was blocked by the old guard that is still all there and felt threatened when it understood that I could tell the pope and Parolin what I had seen in the accounts. This is what logic says.”
Libero Milone, 69, born in Holland, a specialist at the international level, was appointed auditor general of the Vatican balance sheets - the first to hold this office - on May 9, 2015.
“I was chosen,” he says, “by secretariat of state Pietro Parolin, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, and Cardinal George Pell. And the final decision lay with the pope. I did not seek that post. I was contacted by the Egon Zehnder office in Miami. And I accepted because I believed in the reforms of Pope Francis.”
I cannot help compare the rough-house tactics worked on Milone by the Bergoglio henchmen to the 'softer' but equally reprehensible moves taken against Ettore Gotti-Tedeschi by Cardinal Bertone and his axemen at IOR when they threw him out of the window at IOR after obtaining a psychological 'evaluation' that he, EGT, was mentally unstable from a doctor who only observed him once without contact at an IOR Christmas party.
Of course, EGT has continued to write as lucidly, rationally and informed as he has always done - and is anyone claiming that his articles and interviews are the products of an unstable mind? Because if so, then even his contributions to Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in veritate would have had to be the product of the same unstable mind! Is Bertone able to say that to Benedict XVI???[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 08/10/2017 00:48]