Knowing some of Holy Mother Church's inner workings... he done the deed. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Mr. Worf <[email protected]> wrote:
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The senior cardinal > defended Monday his … > Mon Jun 21, 2:55 pm ET > > NAPLES, Italy (AFP) – A senior cardinal defended Monday his record at the > head of a powerful Vatican body after being placed under investigation by > Italian > prosecutors<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>as > part of a sweeping corruption scandal. > > "I did everything with maximum transparency," Crescenzio Sepe, who is also > the archbishop of the southern city of Naples, told a news conference. > > Prosecutors in the central > town<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>of > Perugia are investigating Sepe over alleged kickbacks he accepted as the > head of Propaganda Fide, the body handling the Vatican's vast real estate > holdings and financing much of the Catholic Church's missionary > work<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> > . > > "It will be an easy defence, since it seems to me there is nothing, > absolutely nothing, criminal in his behaviour," Sepe's lawyer Bruno Von Arx > told reporters on Italian television, adding that prosecutors might question > the cardinal this coming week. > > The probe is part of a larger corruption > investigation<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>that > has touched figures close to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, forcing > one of his ministers to resign in May. > > Sepe, who headed Propaganda Fide from 2001 to 2006, allegedly sold a > building at a quarter of its market value to Italy's then infrastructure > minister<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>, > Pietro Lunardi. > > Italian media have reported that in exchange for the favourable sale price > Propaganda Fide obtained public subsidies worth 2.5 million euros for public > works that never carried out. > > The works were contracted out to Rome construction magnate Diego Anemome, > one of the linchpins of the system, and who is under investigation by > prosecutors over several public tenders, including infrastructure for the > Group of Eight summit in > Italy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>last > year. > > "I always acted following my conscience, with the good of the Church as my > sole goal," Sepe said, reading from a letter addressed to the people of > Naples. > > He also said that the Vatican approved all of the balance sheets involved > in the probe and congratulated him for his management of Propaganda Fide. > > Sepe ended his statement with an oblique accusation to those implicating > him in the scandal. > > "I forgive, from the bottom of my heart, those that -- in and outside the > Church -- wanted to hit me," he said. > > Sepe, a beloved > figure<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>in > Naples, headed the committee organising works for the Great Jubilee of > the year 2000 before being promoted to the head of Propaganda Fide in 2001. > In 2006, he left that position to head the archdiocese of Naples. > > Italy's minister for economic development Claudio Scajola resigned over a > similar probe into his purchase of an apartment in central > Rome<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> > . > > Scajola is suspected of accepting a large sum of money from Anemone towards > the purchase of the apartment in July 2004. > > Guido Bertolaso, the head of the Civil Protection agency and one of Silvio > Berlusconi's proteges, is also under investigation for alleged > irregularities in the award of reconstruction contracts in earthquake-hit > L'Aquila, in central Italy and is suspected of having benefited from a > Propaganda Fide apartment. > > Vatican spokesman Federico > Lombardi<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>on > Sunday demanded "prompt clarification" of the probe, adding that he was > "confident the situation will be clarified quickly and in full to eliminate > any shadows hanging" over Sepe and Church > institutions<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> > . > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
