Anti Mafia prosecutors have asked the secretive Vatican Bank to disclose details of an account held by a priest in connection with a money laundering and fraud investigation, it emerged on Sunday. The official request was made more than a month ago but so far the Vatican Bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, Read more
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Mobster exhumed in search for clues to Vatican linked kidnapping
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Italian gangster Antonio Mancini has said that the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee was killed in 1983 because a criminal gang was irate over the loss of funds deposited in the Vatican bank. Emanuela Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family’s Vatican City apartment to go to a music Read more
Vatican tomb of mafia don to be reopened over teen murder mystery
Friday, April 27th, 2012The tomb of a mafia don buried in a basilica in Rome is to be opened in an attempt to solve a mystery that has dogged the Vatican for three decades. It is thought the sarcophagus could contain not only the skeleton of the notorious mob gangster, Enrico “Renatino” De Pedis, but also the remains Read more
Shots fired at car of Mafia-fighting priest in Italy
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011A southern Italian priest who is outspoken against the Mafia said gunshots fired at his car were likely meant to show him and the public that members of organised crime are still in charge of the area.
“I think it was just a serious warning,” Father Giuseppe Campisano, the pastor of St. Rocco Parish in Gioiosa Ionica, told Vatican Radio.
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