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Retired prelate is accused over Vatican expos�
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
A BOOK which claims to expose corruption, blind ambition,
cronyism and sexual shenanigans in the Vatican has enraged
Church authorities, who accuse an elderly prelate of its
authorship.
The Roman Rota or ecclesiastical tribunal, acting on a report
by someone claiming to be an injured party, alleges that Mgr
Luigi Marinelli wrote Via Col Vento in Vaticano (Gone with
the Wind in the Vatican), and has ordered him to appear for
questioning with a lawyer. The prelate, who retired last year
from the Congregation for Eastern Churches, has also been
told to withdraw the book from circulation, and to halt any
translations.
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
formerly the Inquisition, is also said to have opened a case
against Mgr Marinelli over the alleged violation of Vatican
secrets.
The name of the author appearing on copies of the book
published by Kaos Edizioni of Milan is "I Millenari", meaning
the Millenarians. But the Rota says that Millenari is also an
anagram of "Marinelli". Mgr Marinelli, while not denying
involvement, has replied that the book was clearly
co-authored, and claims that he is a scapegoat.
The book, which names many of those it accuses, also again
questions whether the death of Pope John Paul I was natural,
and discloses the back-stabbing that went on in the fight for
one of the Vatican's highest posts.
It talks of cartels of power in the Vatican and of one
monsignor regularly locking himself in his Vatican office at
night with handsome young men "to do urgent work", and of a
prelate being caught at the Swiss border with suitcases
stuffed with dollars.
One "elderly priest" showered so many presents on influential
people in Rome that he became known as "Father Christmas"
until one of his beneficiaries had him made a bishop, at the
age of 72. He then "squandered millions", and various items
of diocesan property mortgaged by him, including the bishop's
palace and cathedral, were sold.
"When he died, it was discovered that he had passed them to
his natural son, who had never stopped blackmailing him," the
book says.
� Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1999.
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Corruption 'rife in Vatican'
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
AN Italian prelate who co-authored a book about alleged
widespread sex, power and cronyism inside the Vatican said
yesterday that Satan had "entered the Church".
Luigi Marinelli said he would not be attending a hearing
tomorrow to answer for the book, Gone With the Wind in the
Vatican, as ordered by the Sacred Roman Rota, the Holy See's
highest appeals court. He told Italian state television news:
"I won't be attending because I don't want to blow the matter
up any further."
In another interview, he said the move against him was absurd
and "mistaken in method and merit". It ignored his rights
under Canon Law to discuss the matter first with his
superiors. The book accuses the Vatican of careerism,
Freemasonry, sex and corruption. It has sold 100,000 copies
since its publication in Italy in February. The Vatican's
reaction has merely fuelled demand.
The Vatican has taken steps to stop the pro-homosexual
campaigning of a priest and a nun in America. Robert Nungent
and Jeannine Gramaick have been told that they are to be
punished by the Sacred Congregation of the Faith for their
"ambiguous opinions".
� Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1999.
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