Mr Worf, the trouble is mostly in the upper hierarchy, who've tasted the power and can't let go of it.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You'd think that members of the clergy would be above all of that, but the > last 20 years has proven that sentiment to be false. > > To be honest, the church has had a pretty jaded past throughout its > history. I remember reading recently that the church put a hit out on the > Medici family in the 1500s because the church owed them too much money. > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Knowing some of Holy Mother Church's inner workings... he done the deed. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence [image: AFP] >>> <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2/*http://www.afp.com> >>> >>> - Buzz up!0 votes >>> - >>> Send<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AsMRPpIz8geMU02HRzBGrEg8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBtMjViYjc3BHBvcwMxBHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA3NlbmQ-/SIG=1an1j5ke4/**http%3A//m2f.news.yahoo.com/mailto/%3Fprop=news%26locale=us%26url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.yahoo.com%252Fs%252Fafp%252F20100621%252Fwl_afp%252Fvaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26title=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%26h1=afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26h2=T%26h3=1512> >>> - >>> Email<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=1an1j5ke4/**http%3A//m2f.news.yahoo.com/mailto/%3Fprop=news%26locale=us%26url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.yahoo.com%252Fs%252Fafp%252F20100621%252Fwl_afp%252Fvaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26title=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%26h1=afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26h2=T%26h3=1512> >>> - >>> IM<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553;_ylt=AooQTdIMPaYbhsONSBuhgNc8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBrZmR2dWJ0BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA2lt> >>> - >>> Share<http://delicious.com/save?url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553&title=Senior+cardinal+accused+of+corruption+issues+defence+-+Yahoo%21+News> >>> - >>> Facebook<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AlB1GG2Ly8RGCQTVx5CmPDY8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBxMXY2MmUyBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA2ZhY2Vib29r/SIG=17044undf/**http%3A//www.facebook.com/sharer.php%3Fu=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26t=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%2B-%2BYahoo%2521%2BNews> >>> - >>> Twitter<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AvkYP8KSegN1fpeVnUjBt1w8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBwbzA3N2NsBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA3R3aXR0ZXI-/SIG=16ui6nmrh/**http%3A//twitter.com/home%3Fstatus=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26title=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%2B-%2BYahoo%2521%2BNews> >>> - >>> Delicious<http://delicious.com/save?url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553&title=Senior+cardinal+accused+of+corruption+issues+defence+-+Yahoo%21+News> >>> - >>> Digg<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Asj_Ku6CScwfiqi1Po2dagk8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBtdWVwOWh2BHBvcwM4BHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA2RpZ2c-/SIG=143kjcov9/**http%3A//digg.com/submit%3Fphase=2%26url=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553> >>> - >>> Fark<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AiaK34FSPAPxYuVza4dKGBY8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBtamQ5MW9kBHBvcwM5BHNlYwN0b3AEc2xrA2Zhcms-/SIG=174fqnb02/**http%3A//cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/farkit.pl%3Fu=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26h=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%2B-%2BYahoo%2521%2BNews> >>> - >>> Newsvine<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=At2x.8fmGqQqfSCA7HydnaY8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBycG1vNjNxBHBvcwMxMARzZWMDdG9wBHNsawNuZXdzdmluZQ--/SIG=178lt3njb/**http%3A//www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed%26save%3Fu=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26h=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%2B-%2BYahoo%2521%2BNews> >>> - >>> Reddit<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Ah5SiYO1OjtNxbhPF68l4o88Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBwZG5xcWxsBHBvcwMxMQRzZWMDdG9wBHNsawNyZWRkaXQ-/SIG=13rdh74dq/**http%3A//reddit.com/submit%3Furl=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553> >>> - >>> StumbleUpon<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AoufSwWw4PfDyY4.oXXcTZI8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTB1NGptcmduBHBvcwMxMgRzZWMDdG9wBHNsawNzdHVtYmxldXBvbg--/SIG=17573ijsq/**http%3A//www.stumbleupon.com/submit%3Furl=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553%26title=Senior%2Bcardinal%2Baccused%2Bof%2Bcorruption%2Bissues%2Bdefence%2B-%2BYahoo%2521%2BNews> >>> - >>> Technorati<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Aup.SSHnl5XP7vrvSWiF1jI8Ob5_;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZGFtNWo4BHBvcwMxMwRzZWMDdG9wBHNsawN0ZWNobm9yYXRp/SIG=14efkpeke/**http%3A//technorati.com/faves%3Fsub=addfavbtn%26add=http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553> >>> - Yahoo! 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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 >> >> >> > > > -- > 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
