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'St. Peter's Squared', Chapter 8
Excerpts
Harper Collins, 1989
If they were not doing evil they would not have so great a
hatred of the light.
Ever since 1738 when Clement XII
issued his bull In Eminenti against the 'depraved and perverted'
societies of Freemasons, the Roman Catholic Church has been condemning
Freemasonry as if it were the child of the devil. Ironically, it was
only in recent years, as Protestant churches were at last plucking up
courage to round on the brotherhood, that the Vatican softened its
opposition and seemed almost to welcome its centuries-old enemy beneath
the canopy of St Peter's itself.
In eminenti -
the first of more than twenty bulls against Freemasonry - was issued
partly on doctrinal grounds but also because, in the 1730's, the Papacy
felt its temporal power was being subverted by a lodge in Florence.
The lodge, set up by Englishmen, was
being used by English agents as a cell for intrigue and espionage.
As I explain in Chapter 33, the
agents target was the Stuart Pretender, James, who was holding court in
the Holy City, but the lodge also contained Italian freethinkers who
mocked the Papacy.
On
both these grounds Clement railed against societies called 'Liberi
Muratori' or 'Freemasons' for the 'great mischiefs' they did to the
'temporal tranquility' of the state:
Since we are taught by
the divine word to watch, like a faithful servant, night and day, lest
this sort of men break as thieves into the house, and like foxes
endeavor to root up the vineyard... we do condemn and prohibit the same
societies...
The Pope commended that no members of 'the faithful in Christ',
whatever their status, laymen or clergy, should join Masonic societies,
or give Masons shelter, help them meet, 'afford them counsel, help or
favor', assist them to recruit, or 'in any manner aid and promote them'.
Those who did would suffer the
penalty of excommunication,
'without any other declaration; from
which no one can obtain the benefit of absolution from any other but
us... except at the point of death'.
Enforcing the new law
fell to the Holy Inquisition which promptly jailed an Italian member of
the Florence lodge.
The
lodge closed but some of its members still conspired against Rome. For
the next 100 years Freemasonry grew throughout Italy as a cover for
nationalist revolutionary activity. According to one Masonic writer,
from the middle of the nineteenth century 'the salient point of Italian
politics was war against Catholicism directly led by the lodges'.
By 1848 Pius IX and the Papal
States were overwhelmed by the movement for Italian unification. The
papal prime minister was assassinated, an act which the revolutions
leader, [and Mafia founder - FW] the Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini,
deemed 'necessary and just'.
Rome rebelled, Pius fled, and Mazzini set up a Roman
Republic. It did not last. In 1850 the French put Pius back on the Roman
throne, but the secret societies had signaled the end of his
territorial power. Twenty years later Italian unity was achieved,
largely through the efforts of three Masons; the revolutionary Mazzini,
the soldier Garibaldi and the statesman Cavour. By 1870 these men had
destroyed the Pope's earthly dominion.
Rome was made the capital of an independent secular
nation state and the Papacy was reduced to 109 acres around St. Peter's.
In his tortured thirty-two year reign Pius IX issued six bulls
attacking Masonry but the definitive condemnation came in 1884 with Humanum
Genus, in which Leo XIII lamented that the pontiff was falsely
deprived of temporal power, the stronghold of his rights and of his
freedom.
He was next reduced to an iniquitous
condition, unbearable for its numberless burdens until it has come to
this, that the sectarians may openly say what they had already in secret
devised for a long time, namely, that the very spiritual power of the
Pope ought to be taken away and the divine institution of the Roman
Pontificate ought to disappear from the world.
Leo endorsed
the view that the Freemasons' 'real supreme aim' is,
'to persecute
Christianity with untamed hatred, and they will never rest until they
see cast to the ground all religious institutions established by the
Pope'.
Masons insinuate
themselves 'into the hearts of Princes' in order to exploit them as
'accomplices to overcome Christianity'. Then they resole to 'shake the
foundations of the thrones, and persecute, calumniate or banish those
sovereigns who refuse to rule as they desire'.
The Masons deceived
the people too into believing that 'the Church is the cause of the
iniquitous servitude and misery in which they are suffering' but,
'It would be more
according to civil wisdom and more necessary to universal welfare that
Princes and Peoples, instead of joining the Freemasons against the
Church, should unite with the Church to resist the Freemasons' attacks'.
The turning
point was the Papacy of John
XXIII.
THE
USURPATION OF GOD BY MAN OF THE APOSTATE ROBBER COUNCIL OF VATICAN II
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In 1962 his second Vatican Council
promoted a new climate of religious tolerance and raised hopes of a
coming together of all churches and faiths. It called for a dialogue
with all 'men of goodwill' who showed a readiness to talk with the
Church.
Leading Masons felt
this must include them because their order was built on a similar
concept of 'gather together, beyond the limits of the various religions
and world views, men of goodwill on the basis of humanistic values
comprehensible and acceptable to everyone. It was also told that
Masonry's moral values encourage men to embrace their own religions even
more strongly, so that Catholics who are Masons become even better
Catholics.
In the decade after Vatican II, Catholic
leaders in several countries were solicited by Freemasons.
In 1968 a prominent English Mason
named Harry Carr persuaded the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
to propose a softer line on Freemasonry to the Vatican. Cardinal
Heenan was sympathetic because of the sad tale of one of his
parishioners. In his autobiography he told of his visits to a Yeoman of
the Guard (a Beefeater at the Tower of London) who was 'over seventy
with a well-trimmed white beard'.
The man always attended Sunday Mass and 'prayed with
great recollection', but never took Communion.
'There was only one
black mark in the Yeoman's record. He had not received the sacraments
within living memory. His children knew the reason. In the army he had
become a Freemason in the belief that this would further his career.'
Heenan felt it was
'probably only a matter of time' before the general ban on Masonry would
be lifted, but not even he dared ask the Vatican to allow the Yeoman to
take Communion while he was still a Mason. Instead the Cardinal urged
the Beefeater to quit the Craft, but he never did because he,
'was under the almost
certainly false impression that he would have to cease to be a Yeoman if
he resigned from his masonic lodge'.
As it happens, the
Yeoman's 'impression' was almost certainly correct for the Craft is
strong in the army, the Territorial and in many quasi-military
organizations.
At
that time it may have held sway among Beefeaters. Ignoring such worldly
obstacles, Heenan embraced Carr's view that 'regular' Masons had
never plotted against the Church and accepted the need to draw a 'sharp
line' between English-style Freemasonry and the 'atheistic or
anti-Christian Grand Orient type'.
In his own book Carr says he urged Heenan to urge
Rome that it could use the English model to distinguish between good
and bad Freemasonry.
He
added:
'What we really need is an intermediary, to convince
your authorities.' Heenan replied: 'I am your intermediary.'
The Cardinal then took
up the cause of 'regular' Freemasonry with Pope Paul VI. By 1971 he was
able to report some progress...
Similar Church-Mason
canoodling was going on in France, where Freemasonry has an even
stronger anti-clerical tradition than in Italy. The French Revolution
was largely inspired by Masonic notions and by masons such as Diderot,
Voltaire and Lafayette. French history thereafter is littered with
Masonic onslaughts on Catholics and Catholicism...
In
March 1985 the Vatican newspaper, L' Osservatore Romano, published an
article showing that all those cozy chats between folk like Harry Carr
and Cardinal Heenan had missed the central issue. What mattered was not
which lot of Masons plotted against the Church but whether Freemasonry's
'philosophical ideas and moral conceptions' could ever be reconciled
with the fundamentals of Christian faith. Even a century before, when
the Papacy had just been territorially destroyed by Masons, its
opposition had been primarily doctrinal.
In Humanum Genus Leo XIII condemned
the brotherhood's 'rationistic naturalism'. Elsewhere, he said:
'Christianity and
Freemasonry are essentially irreconcilable, so that enrolment in one
means separation from the other.'
L'Osservatore Romano
expressed in its Latin way most of the objections later raised by
Britain's Protestant Churches.
Above all it must be
remembered that the community of 'Freemasons' and its moral obligations
are presented as a progressive system of symbols of an extremely binding
nature. The rigid rule of secrecy which prevails there further
strengthens the weight of the interaction of signs and ideas. For the
members, this climate of secrecy entails above all the risk of becoming
an instrument of strategies unknown to them.
Freemasonry's
'relativism', its failure to differentiate between right and wrong
paths to God, reducing all religions to facets of 'a
broader and elusive truth', is unacceptable. A Catholic cannot live his
relation withGod in a two-fold mode... dividing it into a
supraconfessional humanitarian form and an interior Christian form.
He cannot cultivate relations of two
types of God, no express his relation with the Creator through
symbolic forms of two types... On the one hand, a Catholic Christian
cannot at the same time share in the full communion of Christian
brotherhood and, on the other, look upon his Christian brother, from the
Masonic perspective, as an 'outsider'.
After fifteen years of
flirting with Freemasonry, the Church had come back to where it had
stood before Vatican II, and before that for more than 200 years. Yet
from 1974 an unknown number of Catholics had joined the Craft.
The Vatican
has still not made clear where they now stand. Should they follow a
1911 decree which instructed Catholic Masons to move into 'passive
membership' abstaining from all participation and 'communion' with
Freemasonry, or quit altogether if they can so do without causing
themselves or their family 'serious harm'? Without express guidance,
Catholics already active in Freemasonry will probably stay active. They
may find 'grave sin' more fun than Holy Communion.
The
dalliance is over, but crucial questions still need to be answered. Why
did the kissing stop in 1981? And how had it ever begun? Was it just
Vatican II which caused the Church to drop its centuries-old hostility
or was some other force at work?
A 'topside'
interpretation might claim the kissing had to stop as soon as Germany's
bishops produced a devastating statement on six years of discussion with
their Masonic countrymen. In 1980 they reported:
'It is impossible to
belong to the Catholic Church and to Freemasonry at the same time.'
For all the Craft's
humanitarian and charitable aspects, and its stand against
'materialistic ideology', it still denies the 'objective validity of
revealed truth'.
Being
a Mason 'is to question the fundamental principles of Christian life'.
The bishops slated Freemasonry for its many 'isms': indifferentism,
relativism, subjectivism, deism. To the Masons 'all religions are
competitive attempts to express the ultimate unattainable truth about
God '. This 'undermines the faith of a Catholic' whose Church - despite
Vatican II - still lays claim to absolute truth.
The
bishops' statement was published ten months before the Vatican made its
1981 declaration that Catholic Masons still faced excommunication, but
everything they said was as plain as a Swiss Guard's pikestaff.
Anyone with the slightest awareness
of Catholic dogma and Masonic 'tolerance' would already have known the
two could never be reconciled without intellectual dishonesty. It is
unlikely, therefore, that the volte-face had nothing to do with the
German bishops but everything to do with the scandal of Propaganda
Massonica Due, the 'regular' Masonic Lodge otherwise known as P2.
I
tell the inside Masonic story of P2 in Chapter 33. Here I point out
that this plot to subvert the entire Italian nation first penetrated St
Peter's in the 1960s, soon after Vatican II.
It was only on the eve of the P2
scandal that the Sacred Congregation published its 1981 'no-change'
statement.
P2's shocking 'state
within a state' membership lists were discovered one month later, but
magistrates had already been investigating P2's Grand Master Lucio Gelli
for two years and knew how deeply he and his Masonic cronies had
subverted the Vatican in the eighteen years since Paul VI had become
Pope.
Now the Vatican suddenly realized Freemasonry was
still a perfect vehicle for conspiracies against Church and State.
'Times change,' the English bishops had said in 1974. They failed to say
that Freemasonry remains the same. The P2 scandal was 1738 and 1848 all
over again.
'Men of goodwill' in
Britain, France and Italy would bluster that P2 had nothing to do with
'regular' Freemasonry, but this was a lie and those who uttered it were
either fools or knaves.
P2
was a recognized part of the 'regular' Grand Orient of Italy - itself
recognized by the Grand Lodge of England in 1972 - and three successive
Italian Grand Masters were up to their necks in the conspiracy.
Yes Virginia,
Freemasonry Lies
' Inside
the Brotherhood' - Martin Short
'Spooks in Aprons', Chapter 33 Excerpts
Harper Collins, 1989
Despite the combined claims
of Bentine, Knight and Chinaman, I sense that this 'KGB infiltration'
view of British Freemasonry is a distraction: not invalid, but far less
significant than the greater truth that stolid Whitehall bureaucrats
have joined Freemasonry in far greater numbers than any spies.
Such mandarins may be mediocre, even
incompetent, but they are the people who keep the ship of state afloat.
If a few of them corruptly feather their nests by feeding juicy
contracts to Masonic friends in private industry, so be it. These men
may not be the backbone of the civil service, but they constitute
several ribs.
Knight went more dangerously off-course
with a second KGB theory: that Italy's P2 Masonic Lodge conspiracy was a
KGB plot.
He was fed this idea
by someone whom he described as 'an impeccable source within British
Intelligence', but his strongest evidence appears to have been the
perverse fact that of all Italy's leading political parties, 'only the
Communist Party had no links with P2' and so could exploit the P2
scandal with impunity.
'From the beginning,' he continued, 'Lodge P2
was a KGB-sponsored program aimed at destabilizing Italy, weakening
NATO's southern flank, sweeping the Communists into power in Italy, and
sending resultant shock waves throughout the western world.'
Even when The
Brotherhood first appeared, this seemed an unlikely story.
Five years later it is clear that
Knight's 'impeccable source' had filled him with disinformation. To
understand this government spook's motives we have to explore the P2
story from several angles, but first a brief summary of P2.
In
March 1981 two Milan magistrates were investigating the fake kidnapping
in 1979 of a swindling Sicilian-born international banker, Michele
Sindona. They were also probing his role as financial advisor to the
Vatican and the Mafia. They discovered that, while he was hiding in
Palermo, one of his 'minders' had traveled 600 miles north to Arezzo to
visit a textile manufacturer, Licio Gelli.
They promptly ordered a search of
Gelli's premises. On 17 March finance policemen discovered 962 Italian
names on lists kept in his office safe and a suitcase. The names
belonged to members of a Masonic Lodge named Propaganda Massonica, also
known as P2. Gelli was its Venerable Master.
What
astonished the investigators was that the names on the lists amounted to
a state within a state.
They
included forty-three MPs (among them three cabinet ministers),
forty-three generals and eight admirals (including the current heads of
all the armed forces), security service bosses, hundreds of public
servants and diplomats, the police chiefs of Italy's four biggest
cities, industrialists and financiers, television stars and twenty-four
journalists, including the editor and publisher of Corriere della
Sera. Sindona was a member. So was another controversial banker, Roberto
Calvi, who would later be found hanging under London's Blackfriars
Bridge.
But who was Gelli?
In
succeeding months the magistrates discovered that this seeming
small-town industrialist was a fascist war criminal who had
opportunistically betrayed his colleagues as soon as he realized Germany
was going to lose the war. A few years later his past caught up with
him, so he fled to Argentina and made valuable political friends such as
General Peron.
In
the mid-1960s he returned to Italy and was appointed Argentina's
honorary consul. He soon had connections everywhere.
He had no problems doing textile
business in Eastern Europe, but he also popped up in Rome's right-wing
circles. He even had friends in America's Republican Party, through whom
he was invited to President Reagan's 1981 inauguration. He was masterly
at collecting influential people.
He manipulated them to aggrandize himself.
At times his motive
seemed to be financial, at others ideological, but what was his
ideology?
What
mystified the Milan magistrates - and other people on his trail - was,
who did he really work for?
For Italy's
secret services, for America's CIA or Russia's KGB?
The
KGB theory was always the least likely. There was little
evidence to support it, whereas there was overwhelming proof of Gelli's
continuous involvement with fascism for more than forty years.
Significantly, the 'P2-KGB plot'
fantasy resembles a parallel propaganda myth which fooled many other
journalists at the time: that the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John
Paul II was a Bulgarian plot.
"Western intelligence
experts are now generally agreed that the attempted killing was inspired
by the KGB," wrote Stephen Knight.
If Western Intelligence
experts really believed that, the West was (and is) in deep trouble.
It
has now been shown that this theory was concocted by two Americans: a
former CIA operative named Paul Henze and a right-wing
journalist named Michael Ledeen. Ledeen had previously known a
rising Italian businessman, Francesco Pazienza, who had links
with SISMI: Italian Military Intelligence.
However, Pazienza rejects the
'Bulgarian plot' theory and claims he is himself the victim of black
propaganda, falsely branded as a P2 member and as Gelli's nominated
successor. He is a Mason, but says he never met Gelli. In 1988 he was
sentenced to a ten years in prison over the 1980 bombing of Bologna
railway station, but he claims he will be cleared on appeal.
At
a future date I hope to portray the political, military, and commercial
rackets which P2 members have continued to perpetrate years after P2
was officially dissolved. Here I show how the reactionary forces, in
Italy and America, which created P2 are tied in with British
Intelligence and British Freemasonry.
Many of my comments are based on
evidence gathered by an Italian Parliamentary Inquiry into P2. Its 1984
report was never published in English. Indeed, it has rarely been
mentioned in the British or American media, even though its contents
have world wide significance.
The report also helps explain why - and on what basis -
British Intelligence misled Stephen Knight into believing P2 was a
KGB plot.
To understand P2,
however, we must have some idea of the history of Freemasonry in Italy.
The brotherhood has had
a controversial history ever since it reached Italy in the early 1730's
(see Chapter 8), but its political ascendancy was ended in 1925 when it
was outlawed by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Twenty years later it was legalized
again, but only after the US Office of Strategic Services (the
forerunner of the CIA) had pressured Italy's weak and impoverished
government. The OSS planned to use Freemasonry just as it used the
Mafia: to prop up a sickly democracy threatened by Soviet-inspired
destabilization and the prospect of a communist election victory.
The
OSS/CIA backed Italy's strongest Masonic faction, the Grand Orient,
which today has some 15,000 members.
From 1961 until 1970 its Grand Master was Giordano
Gamberini who (whether for the CIA or his own ends) sought to
influence Italian elections by canvassing for candidates who were
Freemasons and giving them money. At the time he was desperate to win
recognition from the United Grand Lodge of England, which most 'regular'
Masons in the world regard as the sole source of legitimacy.
If England could be persuaded to
recognize the Grand Orient, all other Grand Lodges would follow suit.
England had always refused, largely because of Italian Freemasonry's
historic involvement in politics. This offends the Basic Principles on
which England's Grand Lodge decides whether to recognize any other.
Principal 7 states:
'The discussion of
politics and religion within the Lodge shall be strictly prohibited.'
By meddling in
politics Gamberini was breaching this principal, so the Grand
Lodge of England should have shunned him like the plague. Instead it
acted as if in totally favor - or blissful ignorance - of his political
game.
In the 1960s Grand Lodge was more distracted by
the fact that the Grand Orient (also known as 'Palazzo Giustiani')
was one of two Italian Grand Lodges clamoring for recognition. There
was also the Palazzo del Gesu, with some 5,000 members.
James Stubbs, then England's
Grand Secretary, described the dilemma in his 1985 biography, Freemasonry
in my Life:
It was... well known in Italy that we were not
prepared to plump for one, leaving the other out, or even to recognize
them both; eventually the moment came when at last the cracks were
papered over and the Palazzo Giustiniani seemed to be in control. We
felt justified in recognizing Italy.
The man who had
master-minded the unification of the Grand Orient and Palazzo del Gesu,
paving the way for recognition by England, was none other than the
subsequently notorious Licio Gelli.
He had entered Freemasonry only in 1965, yet he
was instantly recommended to Grand Master Gamberini as someone 'able to
make a great contribution to the institution in terms of recruiting
qualified people'; in other words, to draw into Masonry men dedicated to
right-wing goals.
If
we remember the OSS's fierce anti-communist intent in resurrecting
Freemasonry after World War II, and Gamerini's 1960s electioneering, it
is clear that the political meddling of modern Italian Freemasonry did
not start with Licio Gelli. He merely increased its effectiveness.
In 1970 a
Florence doctor named Lino Salvini became Grand Master. This
freed Gamberini to act as the Grand Orient's roving ambassador in
the search for international recognition. At the same time he sought to
develop Propaganda Massonica Lodge (P2) as a nexus for
the Italian Right to seize control of Italian society, if ever the need
arose. The lodge had been founded in 1877 to meet the needs of
provincial Masons living temporarily in Rome and thus unable to attend
their home lodges. It soon evolved into a 'reserved' or secret lodge
whose members were known only to the Grand Secretary, allegedly to
protect them from Papal wrath.
In the mid-1960s P2 had
only fourteen members, but in 1970 Salvini asked Gelli to 'restructure'
the lodge.
Suddenly numbers
soared. Within a decade it had 400 members, a few years later almost
1,000. Gelli has received all the credit and blame for this achievement,
but Gamberini supervised many of the initiation ceremonies which Gelli
performed in P2's Excelsior Hotel headquarters. Grand Master Salvini
was just as involved. In December 1971 he told P2 members that
henceforth they could pursue their 'profane' (worldly) aims under the
cover of their concealed order:
If until known it has
not been possible to meet at our places of work, with this restructuring
we shall have the possibility and pleasure of more frequent meetings,
to discuss not only the various problems of a social and economic order
which interest our brothers, but also those regarding the whole of
society.
The
minutes of one P2 meeting in the early 1970s reveal what kind of
society appealed to Gelli, Salvini and Gamberini.
Gelli wrote that members discussed:
the political and
economic situation of Italy, the threat of the Italian Communist Party,
in accord with clericalism, aiming at the conquest of power, the lack of
power in the forces of law and order, the spread of immorality,
indiscipline and all the worst aspects of morality and civic virtue...
relationships with the Italian state.
In a note to absent
members Gelli added:
Many have asked... how we should behave if one
morning we awoke to find the clerico-Communists had seized power,
whether it would be best to resign ourselves to passive acquiescence, or
to take on well-defined positions - and if so, on the basis of what
emergency plan.
In other words, P2 was a secret cell for the
preparation of a right-wing coup like those which engulfed Greece in
1967 and Chile in 1973 (in Chile's case, to overthrow President Allende,
who was a communist Freemason of an 'irregular' Masonic order).
Gelli hosted frequent P2 meetings
where the politics of destabilization and subversion were discussed by
police chiefs, army generals, security service bosses and appeal court
judges.
He knew this was not
orthodox Freemasonry:
'Philosophy has been banished, but we felt we
had to do this in order to tackle only solid and concrete arguments
affecting national life.'
During these years Grand Master Salvini
knew exactly what Gelli was doing, indeed he had told him to do it.
The same year that P2 'banished
philosophy' with Salvini's blessing, Salvini himself was blessed by the
Grand Lodge of England. In September 1972 Great Queen Street declared it
was 'convinced that the time is ripe and conditions are favorable' for
recognizing the Grand Orient.
The 1970s were some of
the blackest years in the history of modern Italy. The state was torn
apart by left- and right- wing terror, but many of the horrific acts
originally blamed on the Left (from the Red Brigades to the Communist
Party) turned out to be acts of black propaganda by the extreme Right.
These included the 'Italicus' train bombing in 1974, in which twelve
people were killed, and the 1980 Bologna Station massacre in which
eight-five died.
In
both events P2 had a guiding control.
In July 1976 the
Grand Orient formally suspended P2, but Salvini secretly authorized it
to carry on.
At a meeting in Rome
in September a 'democratic' Mason named Francesco Siniscalchi
asked Salvini to answer a series of questions on Gelli and P2.
Siniscalchi added that if a 'profane' (non-Masonic) magistrate ever
asked him what he knew about Masonic wrongdoing he would have to tell
the truth. Salvini not only refused to answer the questions; he expelled
Siniscalchi and other 'democratic' Masons from the Grand Orient as
traitors for daring to confront him.
In December 1976
he (Siniscalchi) gave Rome judges a dossier exposing numerous
illegalities by Gelli and his P2 clan. It was this
dossier, and other discoveries by Siniscalchi, which first
exposed the P2 conspiracy to 'profane' eyes. Five years later, when
finance police raided Gelli's office, they already had a good idea from
Siniscalchi what they might find.
In 1987 I wrote to
Grand Secretary Ernesto Zampieri and asked why the Grand Orient
had not reinstated its expelled brother Siniscalchi and honored him for
the sterling service which he had done Italian Freemasonry exposing the
evil of P2.
Zampieri's reply made
no reference to Siniscalchi but stated:
'We can assure you that
our organs of Justice do act with a great sense of responsibility from
the safeguard of our institution.'
This presumably means Siniscalchi
will not be reinstated, probably because the Grand Orient feels he has
done it no good whatsoever.
Like many Masons who practice the movement's finest
principals, Siniscalchi has been ostracized by his Masonic bosses who,
no doubt, would have preferred him to keep his mouth shut.
In
September 1981 the Grand Lodge of England felt obliged to explain where
it stood to its own bemused members, 'in view of the very wide
publicity attracted by the so-called P2 Lodge'. It said it had
recognized the Grand Orient in 1972 when satisfied that it accepted
Principle no. 7 banning discussion of politics and religion.
Now, Grand Lodge said, it 'had been
informed' that the Grand Orient had suspended P2 in 1976 and had
authorized no Masonic activity by P2 since then. Licio Gelli had
also been suspended, and the Grand Orient had recently reaffirmed
adherence to the Principles of Recognition, including no. 7. Grand Lodge
would keep the matter under review, but in the meantime did not intend
to take action.
Had Grand Lodge 'been informed' of the
real truth if would have had to take action, even to withdraw
recognition, but its 1981 statement contained many untruths.
P2 was not a 'so-called' lodge. It
had been a legitimate lodge for almost a century. Furthermore, its
suspension in 1976 had been a sham for as we have seen, Grand Master
Salvini promptly authorized it to carry on.
In 1977 he instructed Gelli to continue
'perfecting the Masonic vocation of P2 members:
You will answer only
to me for what you do to this end, promoting and encouraging those
activities which you think of use and interest to Masonry. I am sure
that you will conduct the task with the fearless spirit you showed when
faced by the treacherous attacks of the traitors of the institution.
Grand Master Salvini
resigned in 1978, but his successor, General Ennio Battelli,
continued to accept all Gelli's recruits as legitimate Freemasons.
In 1980 the Grand Orient was still
accepting lump sum payments from Licio Gelli as P2 members' dues.
Battelli also supplied Gelli with blank Grand Orient membership cards.
In autumn 1981, when P2 had at last
been officially dissolved and Gelli suspended, the Grand Orient
transferred P2's members to other lodges: an act which proved the P2
shut-down was a cosmetic device. In reality the lodges reactionary ethos
was now spread like a virus throughout the Grand Orient.
Salvini
had been forced to resign because of intense American Masonic
dissatisfaction over his relationship with Gelli. Yet the new Grand
Master, General Ennio Battelli, brought even greater shame on the
movement. It turned out that Gelli had paid for Battelli's Masonic
election campaign and then gave him regular pay-offs in succeeding
years. The general would later be charged with criminal involvement with
the Bologna Station massacre.
When England's Grand
Lodge goes silent about a Masonic controversy the nearest thing to a
leak may be found in the magazine Masonic Square. In March 1987 it
published an article on Italian Freemasonry which referred to the 'bogus
P2 lodge, a spurious body not affiliated in any way to the Grand
Orient.'
Was this untruth
published through ignorance or had the writer been fed disinformation to
delude England's Masonic faithful? Either way the writer also claimed
that the Grand Orient 'enjoys the warmest relations' with the Grand
Lodges of England, Ireland and Scotland.
Perhaps these
'warmest relations' have blinded England's Grand Lodge to the need to
discover and disseminate the truth about Italian Freemasonry. To spread
the myth that P2 was a perversion, rather than the logical climax, of
the Grand Orient tradition would obviously suit the Grand Orient. In the
early 1980's not only England's Masonic masses but also much of the
Western press were hoodwinked into thinking P2 was not part of
Freemasonry at all.
This
was necessary if a second act of deception - blaming the P2 scandal on
the KGB - could be achieved without tainting the Grand Orient or the
Grand Lodge of England.
This
may explain why British Intelligence sought to mislead Stephen Knight
in 1983.
Masonic
Lodge Propaganda Due (P2)
St.
Peter's Banker
Luigi DiFonzo
Franklin Watts Ltd.
1983
Formed in the 19 th century by the Grande Orient of
Italy for the elites, the organization evolved out of the violent
organization known as the Carbonari.
Pagan elements suffused the rituals of the
organization to which all Grand Masters of regular Italian Freemasonry
of course belonged. The head was known as Naj Hannah (King
Cobra).
In interviews two former members have described
the oaths they took. They were taken to a compound, a Villa hidden in
the Apennines in the region of Tuscany. A 12-foot wall seals the neatly
manicured grounds from view.
In the centre of the main courtyard stands a fountain
shaped like a tree trunk.
The cobra-like
sculpture, with its inflated hood, watches over the compound in a
protective posture, as if ready to strike.
The cobra's head is twice the size of a human
skull. It has a single eye, which is blue during daylight and red after
nightfall, for inside the cobra's hood and behind its eye there is a
closed-circuit camera that follows a visitor, invited or unwelcome, as
the fountain rotates in the direction the intruder moves.
The fountain-camera is controlled from
a room within the villa where eight monitors, each with five stations,
cover eight guest rooms, patio, pool, dining room, sitting room, and
party room. Approximately ten cameras, including the one inside the
cobra, have infrared lenses. All of the exterior cameras are camouflaged
by the landscaping.
The
Villa's interior is magnificent. Every room has marble floors and is
furnished with antiques. Observing the high ceilings, the finely crafted
gold-leaf moldings, the portraits of Mussolini, Hitler, and Peron, the
visitor experiences a feeling, a sort of living, breathing odor of
danger and power that penetrates the soul and cell by cell contaminates
the mind with fear.
In the meeting room, twelve
members of P-2, dressed in satin ceremonial robes and wearing black
hoods reminiscent of those worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan, sit in
leather chairs at a red marble conference table. They are the elite
members of the Wolf Pack, Gelli's disciples - some say his execution
squad. None of the black-clad disciples knows the identity of any of his
eleven brothers.
Grand
Master Licio Gelli is the only one who bares his face.
Two Masons stand post at the entrance
to the meeting room. Their faces are also covered. They are Naja
Hannah's personal bodyguards some say his death squad-former
Mussolini Facists whose job is to protect the Grand Master and kill any
of the twelve disciples who betray the cause "Il Momento di Passare
all..." (The Time for Real Action)... Like Naja Hannah and his
disciples, each bodyguard carries an axe; they also bear automatic
weapons.
The ceremony begins. There is an uneven series
of knocks at the door.
"Your Worshipful," a disciple announces, "a
pagan wishes to enter".
The Grand Master strikes the table with
one blow with his axe. Immediately the oversized door swings open and
slams against the inner wall. Two guards escort the initiate to the
center of the room where he faces the twelve Masons with his back to the
grand masters throne.
The
Pagan, as he is called, is wearing a plain black hood and a blindfold.
His identity is known to Grand Master Licio Gelli but to
no one else.
He is asked one
question by each of the disciples, but the Pagan does not answer,
instead, one of the guards speaks for him. Once all the ritual questions
about purpose and belief and reason for wanting to become a member of Propaganda
Due are answered, the Pagan is turned to face the Grand Master, who
asks,
"Pagan, are you prepared to die in order to preserve the
secrets of Propaganda Due?"
The initiate now answers for himself:
"I am"
"Do you have the
necessary quality of contempt for danger?"
"I do"
"Do you have the necessary quality of
courage?"
"I
am courageous"
"Do you proclaim yourself an Anti-Communist?"
"I do"
"And Pagan, are you
prepared to fight and perhaps face shame, even death, so that we who may
become your Brothers may destroy this Government and form a
Presidency?"
"I
am"
Then the blindfold is removed. It takes a moment for the
initiate's vision to clear, because this is the first time since
entering the compound that he has been allowed to see light.
The blindfold serves a purpose other
than security. It also represents the power of P-2:
"Without membership
one is blind; with the help of the order, however, the way is clear."
Licio Gelli, Grand Master P2
Called
Naja Hannah (King Cobra) by P2 members. Born 1919
in Pistoia, a provincial capital of Tuscany.
At Seventeen he left high school to
fight with the Fascist Italian Blackshirt division in Spain, and during
World War II Gelli zealously supported the Italian dictator, Benito
Mussolini.
Gelli
served as an Officer in the notorious German SS Herman Goering
Division which saw extensive duty in the battles of Sicily and
Mainland Italy.
When
the dictator fell, Gelli fled to Argentina, where he allied himself
with Juan Peron, became Peron's economic advisor to Italy, and was
granted dual citizenship.
Operated the "Rat Line" which
orchestrated the escape of hundreds of indicted or suspected Nazi War
Criminals, "Scientists", and Nazi Intelligence Officers including likely
Klaus Barbie the Butcher of Lyon, Via Switzerland to South
America under the direction of OSS/CIA, and M.I.5 using the code name " Operation
Paperclip".
With the help of the Grande Oriente of
Italy the Anti-Fascist Commission cleared Gelli of War Crime charges
related to his involvement with the executions of Partisans by the SS,
contradicting claims by Masons of Anti-Masonry by Italian Fascists, and
Anti-Fascism by Italian Masons. When Juan Peron died, Eva Peron called
him back to organize the transition.
In early 1960's he
joined the Masonic Order of Freemasonry known in Italy as the Grande
Oriente (recognized by mainstream Freemasonry UGLE & U.S. Grand
Lodges). As Grand Master of P2 Gelli declared himself "a lifelong
anti-communist".
Secret Head of CIA and MI5 "Stay
Behind" Underground Resistance Force Plan with the codename Operation
"Gladio", who worked under the direct supervision of Freemason
Dulles, who later became the CIA director fired by JFK. In the event of a
takeover by Communists or anyone else the CIA, MI5 or Pentagon didn't
like in Europe or Latin America, "Gladio" would wage a clandestine war
of subversion and terrorism against the offending
Government/Movement/People.
This is likely what happened to Salvador Allende of
Chile and the Socialist Government of Greece in the "Colonels Coupe".
Under
Gelli P2 Masonic Lodge was the most powerful, political, and violent
secret organization in Italy. Important Italian Generals, magistrates,
and businessmen became members of P2 Masonic Lodge which Gelli served
from the hierarchy of Freemasonry. Determined to destroy Italy's
parliamentary system of government in order to form a Presidential
Dictatorship, Gelli recruited members who swore allegiance to him rather
than to the nation of Italy.
Gelli was not brilliant
so much as shrewd and devious.
He had money and power, but he realized that wealth and
position meant little without the weapon of fear. Gelli believed that
fear was the instrument by which real power could be masterfully
employed, and he believed fear was most useful when cloaked in silence.
So Grand Master Gelli divided members of P2 Masonic Lodge into divisions
and forbade them to disclose their membership.
In 1980
Gelli was the Guest of Honour at one of Ronald Reagan's Presidential
Inauguration Balls. It has been suggested that Gelli worked closely with
Reagan CIA Director Appointee William Casey in the "October Surprise"
involving the delayed release of U.S. hostages held by the Ayatollah
Khomeini until after the elections, which contributed greatly to Jimmy
Carters defeat.
Ronald Reagan received an
"honorary" 33rd Scottish Rite Freemason Degree after he was elected
President.
Michele Sindona
Pope
Paul VI's banker and confident.
This was part of an elaborate scheme by the Mafia, the
CIA, MI-5, Neo Fascist Groups, and the defacto controlling body of all
Italian Freemasonry - P2 (which was called by Italy's Interior Minister a
State within a State) to subvert, bankrupt, and destroy the Vatican and
the Parliamentary System and replace it with a "Presidential" system
(i.e. a Dictatorship).
Born in 1920 in Patti,
Sicily.
Sindona became
the most successful tax lawyer and the most powerful banker in Italy.
Years later, as one of the wealthiest men in the world, Sindona was
identified by the Italian and U.S. governments as the Mafia's banker
(appointed as such at a International Mafia conclave in Palermo Sicily
in 1957).
He was accused of
washing heroin profits through his banks and of smuggling currency out
of Italy through the Bank of the Vatican and help organize with P2 Grand
Master Gelli and the CIA/MI5 the coup in Greece in '69, an attempted
coup in Italy plus others in Spain and Latin America).
In
1972 Sindona purchased controlling interest of Franklin National
Bank. Two years later Franklin Bank collapsed, the largest bank
failure in American history. On August 2, 1979, while under indictment,Michele
Sindona disappeared and was believed to have been kidnapped by
left-wing terrorists (subsequently proved to be a staged kidnapping by
Sindona and the Mafia to avoid trial).
He reappeared on October 16, 1979, was later convicted
of bank fraud, and was sentenced to twenty five years in prison. P2
Masonic Lodge Member.
Roberto Calvi, Banco Ambrosiano President
Member Masonic Lodge
P2. Received millions of dollars from CIA and British Intelligence which
he laundered to P2 for support of various right wing activities and
coups throughout Southern Europe and Latin America.
Calvi's secretary
"falls" to her death from 4th floor window of Banks International
Headquarters and then the next day Calvi is found hanging
from Black Friars bridge in London with a false passport and twelve
pounds of bricks and rocks shoved in his pockets (i.e. masonry).
Flavio Carboni and Roberto Calvi's Flight
Rome Correspondant
The Financial Post
Victor Golancz Ltd, 1983
Flavio
Carboni is perhaps the key figure in the final stages of Calvi's
life. From January 1982 onwards, he would with with increasing frequency
visit Calvi in Milan, or for weekend consultations at Drezzo.
The small Sardinian, who once boasted
to his family he would become the richest man in Italy, would be
companion and paid counselor to the chairman of Ambrosiano, right
up to the end.
Vaunting
contacts among the Roman politicians, the press and the highest
echelons of Italian Freemasonry, Carboni took over the role that Gelli
had once assumed for Calvi - and more besides.
For Carboni was not
only on good terms with Armando Corona, who in March 1982 was to become
the head of the Italian Grand Orient. He could also enlist the services
of such as Ernesto Diotallevi andDanilo Abbruciati,
notorious bosses of the Rome underworld.
Magistrates would later charge that Carboni's
building and property businesses were used to recycle the proceeds of
organized crime and maybe right-wing terrorism also. In most of the
subsequent discoveries which seemed to link Calvi's Ambrosiano with
common crime, the name of Carboni would be a constant thread.
Calvi
was attracted to Carboni, as he was to Pazienza, by his promised access
to hidden and therefore real power. Precisely to what extent his
helpers were in collusion it is hard to establish. But Calvi feared
Carboni, just as he was afraid of Pazienza with his vaguely threatening
braggadocio, and well-advertised secret service connections. Reading of The
Godfather was not only instructive of the advantages of hidden
power, but also of the fate which might befall those who offended it.
Calvi
was by this stage scared not only for his own safety (his retinues of
bullet-proof Alfa Romeos and bodyguards were costing his bank four
million lire every day) but for that of his family as well. From
February on, he was imploring his wife to leave Italy for somewhere less
dangerous. In May, and with some reluctance, she finally yielded to his
urgings and went to join their son Carlo in Washington.
And with good reason, for the violent
undertows gripping Ambrosiano's affairs had broken dramatically to the
surface.
Roberto Rosone
Rome Correspondant
The Financial Post
Victor Golancz Ltd, 1983
Despite
his lofty rank of general manager and deputy chairman of Banco
Ambrosiano, had lived for many years in a modest first-floor flat in
a corner block of Via Olofredi, close to the central station in Milan.
On the ground floor of the same building was the branch office No. 18 of
Ambrosiano in Milan.
It
was protected round the clock by armed private guards, as indeed are
bank premises up and down Italy, as a matter of routine.
On the morning of April
27, 1982 Rosone left as usual for his office shortly after 8 a.m.
Suddenly, as he turned into the street, a man with a pistol stepped
forward and fired wounding him in the legs.
But the guards had quickly noticed the danger and
shot back, killing the assailant outright. To their great surprise
police identified the corpse as that of no ordinary Milanese delinquent,
but the important Rome gangland figure Abbruciati.
Abbrucati's
links with Carboni, and indeed Carboni's intimate dealings with Calvi,
were not yet public knowledge.
Even so, the episode raised more questions than it
answered, casting a yet more sinister shadow over Ambrosiano.
What was a
high-ranking gangster from Rome doing carrying out a task that would
normally fall to a minion ?
Was the
attack a botched attempt at murder, to punish Rosone for some affront to
the underworld; or was it a deliberate warning and no more, delivered
in classic fashion?
Or was the
warning intended not for him but for Calvi himself?
Later,
after Calvi and Ambrosiano had perished, as still darker possibility
emerged - that Calvi himself, through Carboni and Abbruciati, was
directly or indirectly responsible for the attack on his own
vice-chairman, suspected of plotting against him.
What
is certain is that Carboni was already receiving money from Calvi. In
Italy, Ambrosiano lent large sums to companies owned by Carboni,
and Calvi even provided finance to help the campaign of Corona to become
the new head of Italian Freemasonry.
Timeline
Early September 1978: Pope John Paul I
asks his secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot, to initiate an
investigation into Vatican bank operations.
September 28,
1978: John Paul I presents Cardinal Villot with a list of people who are
to be transferred, asked for their resignations, or reassigned. All the
people on the list are suspected to be members of the Freemason's group
"P2." The reshuffle of power will have major implications for
the existing Vatican power structure and its financial dealings.
September 29,
1978: John Paul I found dead in his bed. Villot issues false
statements to the press about the circumstances surrounding the death,
removes key evidence from John Paul's room, and orders the body to be
embalmed immediately without an autopsy.
October 1978: John
Paul II to replace John Paul I. None of John Paul I's instructions
to Villot before his death are carried out.
January 21,
1979: Murder of Judge Emilio Alessandrini, the Milan magistrate
investigating the activities of Banco Ambrosiano, whose director,
Roberto Calvi, has close ties with Michele Sindona and the Vatican.
March 20,
1979: Murder of Mino Pecorelli, an investigative journalist in
the process of publishing articles exposing the membership and dealings
of "P2" -- a powerful group of Freemasons whose membership was involved
in Vatican financial dealings, and whose founder, Lucio Gelli, was
deeply connected with Roberto Calvi.
March 25,
1979: Arrests on false charges of Mario Sarcinelli and Paolo
Baffi of the Bank of Italy. The two men were pressing for action on
the investigation of the financial dealings of Roberto Calvi and Banco
Ambrosiano.
July 11, 1979:
Murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli following his testimony concerning
Michele Sindona's financial dealings with Calvi and other Vatican
interests, the activities of P2 and its members among powerful
government and business circles, and the connections between Calvi,
Sindona, and Bishop Paul Marcinkus of the Vatican Bank.
July 13, 1979:
Murder of Lt. Col. Antonio Varisco, head of the Rome security
service, who was investigating the activities and membership of P2 and
had spoken with Giorgio Ambrosoli two days before Ambrosoli's death.
July 21, 1979:
Murder of Boris Guilano, the Palermo police deputy
superintendent and head of Palermo CID. Guilano had spoken with Giorgio
Ambrosoli two days before Ambrosoli's death concerning Sindona's
laundering of Mafia money through the Vatican Bank into Switzerland.
October 1979:
Bomb explosion at the apartment of Enrico Cuccia, managing
director of Mediobanca and witness to Sindona's threat to the life of
Giorgio Ambrosoli.
February 2,
1980: The Vatican withdraws at the last moment its agreement that
Cardinals Guiseppe Caprio and Sergio Guerri and Bishop Paul
Marcinkus will provide videotaped depositions on behalf of Michele
Sindona in his trial in the US on charges of fraud, conspiracy and
misappropriation of funds in connection with the collapse of Franklin
National Bank.
May 13, 1980: Michele
Sindona attempts suicide in jail.
June 13, 1980:
Michele Sindona sentenced to 25 years.
July 8, 1980: Roberto
Calvi attempts suicide while in jail on charges of fraud, etc.
Later released on bail and reconfirmed as chairman of Banco Ambrosiano.
September 1,
1981: The Vatican Bank, apparently at the request of Roberto Calvi,
issues "letters of comfort" acknowledging its controlling interest in,
and assuming responsibility for, a more than 1 billion dollar debt of a
number of banks controlled by Calvi.
January 12,
1981: A group of shareholders in Banco Ambrosiano send a letter
to John Paul II outlining the connections between the Vatican Bank,
Roberto Calvi and the P2 and the Mafia. The letter is never
acknowledged.
April 27,
1982: Attempted murder of Roberto Rosone, general manager and
deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, who was trying to "clean up" the
bank's operation.
June 17, 1982:
Roberto Calvi (image right) found hanged to death from a bridge
in London. A few days later, a 1.3 billion dollar "hole" is discovered
in Banco Ambrosiano, Milan.
October 2,
1982: Guiseppe Dellacha, executive at Banco Ambrosiano, dead of a
fall from a window of Banco Ambrosiano, in Milan.
March 23,
1986: Michele Sindona found dead of poisoning in the Italian jail
to which he had been extradited on charges of ordering the murder of
Giorgio Ambrosoli.
Albino
Luciano, Pope John Paul I
David Yallop
Bantam Books, 1984
"On September 28, 1978, he had been pope for
thirty-three days. In little more than a month he had initiated various
courses of action that, had they been completed, would have had a direct
and dynamic effect on us all.
The majority in this world would have applauded his
decisions, a minority would have been appalled. The man who had quickly
been labeled "the smiling pope" intended to remove the smiles from a
number of faces on the following day."
"The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot...
studied the list of appointments, resignations to be asked for and
transfers the pope had handed him. He had advised, argued, and
remonstrated, but to no avail. Luciani had been adamant."
"It was by any
standards a dramatic reshuffle. It would set the Church in new
directions - directions that Villot, and the others on the list who were
about to be replaced, considered highly dangerous...."
 "There was one common denominator, one fact
that linked each of the men about to be replaced. Villot was aware of
it. More important, so was the pope. It had been one of the factors that
had caused him to act, to strip these men of real power...it was
Freemasonry."
"The evidence the pope had acquired
indicated that within the Vatican City State there were over one hundred
Masons, ranging from cardinals to priests."
" Luciani
was further preoccupied with an illegal Masonic lodge that had
penetrated far beyond Italy in its search for wealth and power. It
called itself P2. The fact that it had penetrated the Vatican
walls and formed links with priests, bishops, and even cardinals made P2
anathema to Albino Luciani."
"That evening,
September 28, 1978, thirty-three days after his election, Pope John
Paul I, "the smiling pope", was declared dead. No official death
certificate has ever been issued. No autopsy ever performed. His body
was hastily embalmed. Cause of death: Unknown. And Vatican business
continues..."
"The facts are here in meticulous detail,
documenting widespread corruption within the Vatican and presenting a
compelling case that six powerful men, to protect their vast financial
and political operations, decided on a shocking course of action -- Pope
John Paul I must die."
A List of Masons in the Vatican
and Italian Church?
 The following is a list of Masons reprinted
with some updates from the Bulletin de l'Occident Chrétien Nr.12,
July, 1976, (Directeur Pierre Fautrad a Fye - 72490 Bourg Le Roi.)
All of the men on this list, if they
in fact be Masons, are excommunicated by Canon Law 2338.
Each man's name is followed by his
position, if known; the date he was initiated into Masonry, his code #;
and his code name, if known:
Albondi, Alberto. Bishop of Livorno,
(Leghorn). Initiated 8-5-58; I.D. # 7-2431.
Abrech, Pio.
In the Sacred Congregation Bishops. 11-27-67; # 63-143.
Acquaviva,
Sabino. Professor of Religion at the University of Padova, (Padua).
12-3-69; # 275-69.
Alessandro,
Father Gottardi. (Addressed as Doctor in Masonic meetings.) President of
Fratelli Maristi. 6-14-59.
Angelini
Fiorenzo. Bishop of Messenel Greece. 10-14-57; # 14-005.
Argentieri,
Benedetto. Patriarch to the Holy See. 3-11-70; # 298-A.
Bea, Augustin.
Cardinal. Secretary of State (next to Pope) under Pope John XXIII and
Pope Paul VI.
Baggio,
Sebastiano. Cardinal. Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops.
(This is a crucial Congregation since it appoints new Bishops.)
Secretary of State under Pope John Paul II from 1989 to 1992. 8-14-57; #
85-1640. Masonic code name "SEBA." He controls consecration of Bishops.
Balboni,
Dante. Assistant to the Vatican Pontifical . Commission for Biblical
Studies. 7-23-68; # 79-14 "BALDA."
Baldassarri
Salvatore. Bishop of Ravenna, Italy. 2-19-58; # 4315-19. "BALSA."
Balducci,
Ernesto. Religious sculpture artist. 5-16-66; # 1452-3.
Basadonna,
Ernesto. Prelate of Milan, 9-14-63; # 9-243. "BASE."
Batelli,
Guilio. Lay member of many scientific academies. 8-24-59; # 29-A.
"GIBA."
Bedeschi,
Lorenzo. 2-19-59; # 24-041. "BELO."
Belloli,
Luigi. Rector of Seminar; Lombardy, Ita- ly. 4-6-58; # 22-04. "BELLU."
Belluchi,
Cleto. Coadjutor Bishop of Fermo, Italy. 6-4-68; # 12-217.
Bettazzi,
Luigi. Bishop of Ivera, Italy. 5-11-66; # 1347-45. "LUBE."
Bianchi,
Ciovanni. 10-23-69; # 2215-11. "BIGI."
Biffi, Franco,
Msgr. Rector of Church of St. John Lateran Pontifical University. He is
head of this University and controls what is being taught. He heard
confessions of Pope Paul VI. 8-15-59. "BIFRA."
Bicarella,
Mario. Prelate of Vicenza, Italy. 9-23-64; # 21-014. "BIMA."
Bonicelli,
Gaetano. Bishop of Albano, Italy. 5-12-59; # 63-1428, "BOGA."
Boretti,
Giancarlo. 3-21-65; # 0-241. "BORGI."
Bovone,
Alberto. Substitute Secretary of the Sacred Office. 3-30-67; # 254-3.
"ALBO."
Brini, Mario.
Archbishop. Secretary of Chinese, Oriental, and Pagans. Member of
Pontifical Commission to Russia. Has control of rewriting Canon Law.
7-7-68; # 15670. "MABRI."
Bugnini,
Annibale. Archbishop. Wrote Novus Ordo Mass. Envoy to Iran, 4-23-63; #
1365-75. "BUAN."
Buro, Michele.
Bishop. Prelate of Pontifical Commission to Latin America, 3-21-69; #
140-2. "BUMI."
Cacciavillan,
Agostino. Secretariat of State. 11-6-60; # 13-154.
Cameli,
Umberto. Director in Office of the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Italy in
regard to education in Catholic doctrine. 11-17-60; # 9-1436.
Caprile,
Giovanni. Director of Catholic Civil Affairs. 9-5-57; # 21-014. "GICA."
Caputo,
Giuseppe. 11-15-71; # 6125-63. "GICAP."
Casaroli,
Agostino. Cardinal. Secretary of State (next to Pope) under Pope John
Paul II since July 1, 1979 until retired in 1989. 9-28-57; # 41-076.
"CASA."
Cerruti,
Flaminio. Chief of the Office of the University of Congregation Studies.
4-2-60; # 76-2154. "CEFLA."
Ciarrocchi,
Mario. Bishop. 8-23-62; # 123-A. "CIMA."
Chiavacci,
Enrico. Professor of Moral Theology, University of Florence, Italy.
7-2-70; # 121-34. "CHIE."
Conte,
Carmelo. 9-16-67; # 43-096. "CONCA."
Csele,
Alessandro. 3-25-60; # 1354-09. "ALCSE."
Dadagio,
Luigi. Papal Nuncio to Spain. Archbishop of Lero. 9-8-67. # 43-B.
"LUDA."
D'Antonio,
Enzio. Archbishop of Trivento. 6-21-69; # 214-53.
De Bous,
Donate. Bishop. 6-24-68; # 321-02. "DEBO."
Del Gallo
Reoccagiovane, Luigi. Bishop.
Del Monte,
Aldo. Bishop of Novara, Italy. 8-25-69; # 32-012. "ADELMO."
Faltin,
Danielle. 6-4-70; # 9-1207. "FADA."
Ferraioli,
Giuseppe. Member of Sacred Congregation for Public Affairs. 11-24-69; #
004-125. "GIFE."
Fiorenzo,
Angelinin. Bishop. Title of Commendator of the Holy Spirit. Vicar
General of Roman Hospitals. Controls hospital trust funds. Consecrated
Bishop 7-19-56; joined Masons 10-14-57.
Franzoni,
Giovanni. 3-2-65; # 2246-47. "FRAGI."
Gemmiti, Vito.
Sacred Congregation of Bishops. 3-25-68; # 54-13. "VIGE."
Girardi,
Giulio. 9-8-70; # 1471-52. "GIG."
Giustetti,
Massimo. 4-12-70; # 13-065. "GIUMA."
Gottardi,
Alessandro. Procurator and Postulator General of Fratelli Maristi.
Archbishop of Trent. 6-13-59; # 2437-14. "ALGO."
Gozzini,
Mario. 5-14-70; # 31-11. "MAGO."
Grazinai,
Carlo. Rector of the Vatican Minor Seminary. 7-23-61; # 156-3. "GRACA."
Gregagnin,
Antonio. Tribune of First Causes for Beatification. 10-19-67; # 8-45.
"GREA."
Gualdrini,
Franco. Rector of Capranica. 5-22-61; # 21-352. "GUFRA."
Ilari,
Annibale. Abbot. 3-16-69; # 43-86. "ILA."
Laghi, Pio.
Nunzio, Apostolic Delegate to Argentina, and then to U.S.A. until 1995.
8-24-69; # 0-538. "LAPI."
Lajolo,
Giovanni. Member of Council of Public Affairs of the Church. 7-27-70; #
21-1397. "LAGI."
Lanzoni,
Angelo. Chief of the Office of Secretary of State. 9-24-56; # 6-324.
"LANA."
Levi,
Virgillio (alias Levine), Monsignor. Assistant Director of Official
Vatican Newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. Manages Vatican Radio Station.
7-4-58; # 241-3. "VILE."
Lozza, Lino.
Chancellor of Rome Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas of Catholic Religion.
7-23-69; # 12-768. "LOLI."
Lienart,
Achille. Cardinal. Grand Master top Mason. Bishop of Lille, France.
Recruits Masons. Was leader of progressive forces at Vatican II Council.
Macchi,
Pasquale. Cardinal. Pope Paul's Prelate of Honour and Private Secretary
until he was excommunicated for heresy by Pope Paul VI. Was reinstated
by Secretary of State Jean Villot, and made a Cardinal. 4-23-58; #
5463-2. "MAPA."
Mancini,
Italo. Director of Sua Santita. 3-18-68; # l551-142. "MANI."
Manfrini,
Enrico. Lay Consultor of Pontifical Commission of Sacred Art. 2-21-68; #
968-c. "MANE."
Marchisano,
Francesco. Prelate Honour of the Pope. Secretary Congregation for
Seminaries and Universities of Studies. 2-4-61; 4536-3. "FRAMA."
Marcinkus,
Paul. American bodyguard for imposter Pope. From Cicero, Illinois.
Stands 6'4". President for Institute for Training Religious. 8-21-67; #
43-649. Called "GORILLA." Code name "MARPA."
Marsili,
Saltvatore. Abbot of Order of St. Benedict of Finalpia near Modena,
Italy. 7-2-63; # 1278-49. "SALMA."
Mazza,
Antonio. Titular Bishop of Velia. Secretary General of Holy Year, 1975.
4-14-71. # 054-329. "MANU."
Mazzi,
Venerio. Member of Council of Public Affairs of the Church. 10-13-66; #
052-s. "MAVE."
Mazzoni, Pier
Luigi. Congregation of Bishops. 9-14-59; # 59-2. "PILUM."
Maverna,
Luigi. Bishop of Chiavari, Genoa, Italy. Assistant General of Italian
Catholic Azione. 6-3-68; # 441-c. "LUMA."
Mensa, Albino.
Archbishop of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy. 7-23-59; # 53-23. " MENA."
Messina,
Carlo. 3-21-70; # 21-045. "MECA."
Messina, Zanon
(Adele). 9-25-68; # 045-329. " AMEZ."
Monduzzi,
Dino. Regent to the Prefect of the Pontifical House. 3-11 -67; # 190-2.
"MONDI."
Mongillo,
Daimazio. Professor of Dominican Moral Theology, Holy Angels Institute
of Roma. 2-16-69;# 2145-22. "MONDA."
Morgante,
Marcello. Bishop of Ascoli Piceno in East Italy. 7-22-55; # 78-3601.
MORMA."
Natalini,
Teuzo. Vice President of the Archives of Secretariat of the Vatican.
6-17-67; # 21-44d. "NATE."
Nigro,
Carmelo. Rector of the Seminary, Pontifical of Major Studies. 12-21-70; #
23-154. "CARNI."
Noe,
Virgillio. Head of the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship. He and
Bugnini paid 5 Protestant Ministers and one Jewish Rabbi to create the
Novus Ordo Mass. 4-3-61; # 43652-21. "VINO."
Palestra,
Vittorie. He is Legal Council of the Sacred Rota of the Vatican State.
5-6-43; # 1965. "PAVI."
Pappalardo,
Salvatore. Cardinal. Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily. 4-15-68; # 234-07.
"SALPA."
Pasqualetti,
Gottardo. 6-15-60; # 4-231. "COPA."
Pasquinelli,
Dante. Council of Nunzio of Madrid. 1-12-69; # 32-124. "PADA."
Pellegrino,
Michele. Cardinal. Called "Protector of the Church", Archbishop of
Torino (Turin, where the Holy Shroud of Jesus is kept). 5-2-60; #
352-36. "PALMI."
Piana,
Giannino. 9-2-70; # 314-52. "GIPI."
Pimpo, Mario.
Vicar of Office of General Affairs. 3-15-70; # 793-43. "PIMA."
Pinto,
Monsignor Pio Vito. Attaché of Secretary of State and Notare of Second
Section of Supreme Tribunal and of Apostolic Signature. 4-2-70; #
3317-42. "PIPIVI."
Poletti, Ugo.
Cardinal. Vicar of S.S. Diocese of Rome. Controls clergy of Rome since
3-6-73. Member of Sacred Congregation of Sacraments and of Divine
Worship. He is President of Pontifical Works and Preservation of the
Faith. Also President of the Liturgical Academy. 2-17-69; # 32-1425.
"UPO."
Rizzi,
Monsignor Mario. Sacred Congregation of Oriental Rites. Listed as
"Prelate Bishop of Honour of the Holy Father, the Pope." Works under
top-Mason Mario Brini in manipulating Canon Law. 9-16-69; # 43-179.
"MARI," "MONMARI."
Romita,
Florenzo. Was in Sacred Congregation of Clergy. 4-21-56; # 52-142.
"FIRO."
Rogger, Igine.
Officer in S.S. (Diocese of Rome). 4-16-68; # 319-13. "IGRO."
Rossano,
Pietro. Sacred Congregation of Non-Christian Religions. 2-12-68; #
3421-a. "PIRO."
Rovela,
Virgillio. 6-12-64; # 32-14. "ROVI."
Sabbatani,
Aurelio. Archbishop of Giustiniana (Giusgno, Milar Province, Italy).
First Secretary Supreme Apostolic Segnatura. 6-22-69; # 87-43. "ASA"
Sacchetti,
Guilio. Delegate of Governors - Marchese. 8-23-59; # 0991-b. "SAGI."
Salerno,
Francesco. Bishop. Prefect Atti. Eccles. 5-4-62; # 0437-1. "SAFRA"
Santangelo,
Franceso. Substitute General of Defense Legal Counsel. 11-12-70; #
32-096. "FRASA."
Santini,
Pietro. Vice Official of the Vicar. 8-23-64; # 326-11. "SAPI."
Savorelli,
Fernando. 1-14-69; # 004-51. "SAFE."
Savorelli,
Renzo. 6-12-65; # 34-692. "RESA."
Scanagatta,
Gaetano. Sacred Congregation of the Clergy. Member of Commission of
Pomei and Loreto, Italy. 9-23-71; # 42-023. "GASCA."
Schasching,
Giovanni. 3-18-65; # 6374-23. "GISCHA," "GESUITA."
Schierano,
Mario. Titular Bishop of Acrida (Acri in Cosenza Province, Italy.) Chief
Military Chaplain of the Italian Armed Forces. 7-3-59; #14-3641.
"MASCHI."
Semproni,
Domenico. Tribunal of the Vicarate of the Vatican. 4-16-60; # 00-12.
"DOSE."
Sensi, Giuseppe Mario. Titular Archbishop of Sardi (Asia
Minor near Smyrna). Papal Nunzio to Portugal. 11-2-67; # 18911-47.
"GIMASE."
Sposito,
Luigi. Pontifical Commission for the Archives of the Church in Italy.
Head Administrator of the Apostolic Seat of the Vatican.
Suenens, Leo.
Cardinal. Title: Protector of the Church of St. Peter in Chains, outside
Rome. Promotes Protestant Pentecostalism (Charismatics). Destroyed much
Church dogma when he worked in 3 Sacred Congregations:
Propagation of the
Faith;
Rites and
Ceremonies in the Liturgy;
Seminaries.
6-15-67; # 21-64. "LESU."
Trabalzini,
Dino. Bishop of Rieti (Reate, Peruga, Italy). Auxiliary Bishop of
Southern Rome. 2-6-65; # 61-956. "TRADI."
Travia,
Antonio. Titular Archbishop of Termini Imerese. Head of Catholic
schools. 9-15-67; # 16-141. "ATRA."
Trocchi,
Vittorio. Secretary for Catholic Laity in Consistory of the Vatican
State Consultations. 7-12-62; # 3-896. "TROVI."
Tucci,
Roberto. Director General of Vatican Radio. 6-21-57; # 42-58. "TURO."
Turoldo,
David. 6-9-67; # 191-44. "DATU."
Vale, Georgio.
Priest. Official of Rome Diocese. 2-21-71; # 21-328. "VAGI."
Vergari,
Piero. Head Protocol Officer of the Vatican Office Segnatura. 12-14-70; #
3241-6. "PIVE."
Villot, Jean.
Cardinal. Secretary of State during Pope Paul VI. He is Camerlengo
(Treasurer). "JEANNI," "ZURIGO."
Zanini, Lino.
Titular Archbishop of Adrianopoli, which is Andrianopolis, Turkey.
Apostolic Nuncio. Member of the Revered Fabric of St. Peter's Basilica.
THE
FOLLOWING CLERGY WERE EXPOSED AFTER THE ABOVE LIST WAS COMPILED:
Cresti, Osvaldo.
5-22-63; # 1653-6. "CRESO"
Crosta, Sante.
11-17-63; # 1254-65. "CROSTAS"
Drusilla,
Italia. 10-12-63; # 1653-2. "'DRUSI"
Fregi,
Francesco Egisto. 2-14-63; # 1435-87
Orbasi, Igino.
9-17-73; # 1326-97. "ORBI"
Ratosi, Tito.
11-22-63; # 1542-74 "TRATO"
Rotardi, Tito.
8-13-63; # 1865-34. "TROTA"
Tirelli,
Sotiro. 5-16-63; # 1257-9. "TIRSO"
Events Foretold? "I Saw Satans' Smoke Entering the
Vatican"
Anne
Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), a German Augustinian nun,
stigmatist (bore the wounds of Christ), and miracle-  worker, who subsisted
entirely on water and Holy Communion for many years, received numerous
visions of the future crisis in the Church and the infiltration of the
Masons.
In her visions, she
describes men in aprons destroying the Church with a trowel, The Masons
wear aprons and their symbol is the Mason's trowel.
"I saw St. Peter's. A great crowd of men was
trying to pull it down whilst others constantly built it up again. Lines
connected these men one with another and with others throughout the
whole world. I was amazed at their perfect understanding.
"The
demolishers, mostly apostates and members of different sects, broke off
whole pieces and worked according to rules and instructions. They wore
WHITE APRONS bound with blue riband. In them were pockets and they had
TROWELS stuck in their belts. The costumes of the others were various.
"There were
among the demolishers distinguished men wearing uniforms and crosses.
They did not work themselves but they marked out on the wall with a
TROWEL where and how it should be torn down. To my horror, I saw among
them Catholic Priests. Whenever the workmen did not know how to go on,
they went to a certain one in their party.
He had a large book which seemed to contain the
whole plan of the building and the way to destroy it. They marked out
exactly with a TROWEL the parts to be attacked, and they soon came down.
They worked quietly and confidently, but slyly, furtively and warily.
I saw the Pope praying, surrounded by
false friends who often did the very opposite to what he had
ordered..."
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