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In reply to the discussion: Pope to step down 28 February per Italian news and BBC [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)To make a Pope resign, it must be very big.
The BBC article page has links to...
Vatican bank 'needs more reform', report says (July 2012)
(my summary: inadequate controls on money-laundering to terrorists)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18883902
Vatican Bank chief Tedeschi dismissed (May 2012)
(my summary: Italian police investigating him for money-laundering)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18200083
Vatican Bank 'investigated over money-laundering' (Sept. 2010)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11380628
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If the Pope has been money laundering for terrorists, which terrorists would that likely be? My first guess: Right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia, who are responsible for thousands of murders of trade unionists and other advocates of the poor, and have a highly organized and political criminal organization (called "the Black Eagles" , tied to the (U.S. funded/trained) Colombian military and to Bush Jr. pal, Alvaro Uribe, president (and mafia boss) of Colombia during the Bush Junta. The Bush Junta was using the U.S. "war on drugs" to brutally displace FIVE MILLION peasants from their lands, in my opinion to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and to better direct its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to certain beneficiaries (U.S. banksters? the Bush Cartel? etc.). (The Vatican?)
I'm just guessing, as to which terrorists the Pope might have been funding. I have no evidence that it's the Bush-connected Colombia mafia--but it's an educated guess. The Pope wouldn't be money-laundering for Islamists, I wouldn't think. And the Pope wouldn't resign merely because of inadequate Vatican banking controls on money-laundering. He's likely been personally tied to something in the banking investigation.
It's possible he would resign over the child abuse cover-up, due to the cumulative impact of the scandal. It is quite a massive scandal and may be hurting church revenues. But there doesn't seem to be a precipitating event--that we know of--recent "smoking gun" sort of thing that would require this very, VERY unusual resignation.
So I think it's something lurking in the shadows in this Vatican banking investigation--such as I've suggested--and it would have to be something very bad, to prompt a Pope to resign. It's been 600 to 800 years since that's happened.