Rome prosecutors link Vatican cleric to 29-year mystery of missing girl

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Source: The Guardian

The Vatican is under pressure to help resolve one of the strangest of many enigmas lingering in Italy from the cold war years.

For four years, prosecutors in Rome have been making a renewed attempt to get at the truth behind the disappearance in 1983 of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee.

They are seeking to ascertain whether she was seized by a notorious band of Rome criminals, and whether this has any bearing on the fact that the leader of the gang was buried in a Vatican basilica normally reserved for cardinals and other illustrious prelates.

Last month, Walter Veltroni, a former deputy prime minister, asked the interior minister in Mario Monti's government to confirm that the basilica of Sant'Apollinare, a few yards from the Piazza Navona in central Rome, did not enjoy extra-territorial status and was thus subject to Italian law.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/prosecutors-link-vatican-missing-girl

[radhika]

1. Whew - it all gets creepier and kinkier in Pope-Land n/t

[lovuian]

2. The Vatican is so corrupt

it is Mafia land

[Blue_Tires]

6. +1

[get the red out]

3. Ugh

A crime family the world is forced to "respect"; the Vatican.

[Dawson Leery]

4. The Vatican is filth.

[Gibby]

5. The Vatican has Reublican Family Values

clearly

[happyslug]

7. So the Guardian perfer an anonymous caller to any other explanation

At the end of the Article the Guardian does mention the Cardinal who explained WHY he did the funeral, and it was related to the fact the man helped him organize food kitchens in Rome.

I compare this to Al Capone, who also did Food Kitchens in Chicago (and was a bigger help to the homeless then the Federal, State and local Governments to the homeless at that time, i.e. the early 1930s pre-New Deal). Al Capone was well liked among the homeless and many of the people who dealt with the homeless, his being a criminal was unimportant to them.

There MAY be something to this, but I would place my money elsewhere if I was betting on this missing girl (Presumed to be dead) being related to the Vatican OTHER then she was the daughter of a Vatican official. If I was the Vatican I would grant permission to look into the Coffin, just to shut people up, but that is the call of the Vatican. Please note the alternative point of view is also valid, do we want people to dig up people just because some anonymous caller says some one else is buried in that grave? You have to draw the line somewhere. Do we do another digging up a President (Harding) to test out a theory that he was poisoned by his wife? When that accusation is made decades after both the President and his wife are long dead? You have to draw the line somewhere, and a 20 year old murder case, where the only comment is some anonymous caller saying the victim is buried with the potential murder is at best borderline.

[Boabab]

8. Why do people still support this corrupt enterprise with their hard-earned money? nt