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Fortinbras Armstrong

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3. It should have been cleaned up decades ago

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2014, 07:00 AM

Apr 2014

Certainly after the Banco Ambrosiano mess in the early 1980s.

While it was going on, and then-head of the ICR Paul Marcinkus was hiding out at the Vatican to avoid questions from the Italian banking authorities, the President of Italy came to the Vatican for a three-hour conversation with Pope John Paul II. A Vatican spokesman said that the banking scandal was never mentioned. I remember thinking at the time "how stupid do they think we are?"

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Pope approves reforms for scandal-plagued Vatican bank [View all] hrmjustin Apr 2014 OP

There is no excuse for lack of transparency at this bank goldent Apr 2014 #1

I agree. I think the pope is going to deal properly with this. hrmjustin Apr 2014 #2

It should have been cleaned up decades ago Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2014 #3