Vatican on trial in UK for first time in history as British banker looks to clear his name
Vatican on trial in UK for first time in history as British banker looks to clear his name
A British financier at the centre of the Vatican’s “trial of the century”
has launched a legal bid to clearhis name.
Lawyers for Raffaele Mincione have claimed that the Vatican’s chief prosecutor may have perverted the course of justice because of the misleading allegations levelled
against him in British courts.
The allegations form a central part of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” and relate to a property deal where the Vatican invested £124m in a former Harrods warehouse in
Chelsea that was earmarked for development into luxury apartments.
The Vatican claims Mr Mincione defrauded it by inflating the price when his companies sold the property in 2018. Prosecutors have charged Mr Mincione and ten others with offences
including fraud, embezzlement and abuse of office. All ten, which include Angelo Becci, the former right-hand man to Pope Francis, deny wrongdoing.
However, Mr Mincione maintains he did not do anything wrong and that the property valuation
by independent experts was appropriate. He claims that the Vatican has never disclosed
evidence to show it lost money nor of his alleged wrongdoing.
As a result, Mr Mincione has brought a civil action in the UK courts as a “counterblast”
to the publicity and to protect his reputation after suffering “prejudice” as a result of the allegations.
Now the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Vatican should face trial in the English courts for
the first time in its history over the allegations that it has levelled against Mr Mincione.
In the latest move, Mr Mincione’s lawyers have written to the Vatican’s chief prosecutor Alessandro Diddi, accusing him of “factual misstatements and omissions” in the UK proceedings.
In the letter, Nick Vamos, the former head of special crime and head of extradition at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said these statements may mean Mr Diddi may have
“committed the offence of perverting the course of justice”.
Partygate lawyer
Mr Vamos, who appeared as part of the legal team supporting Boris Johnson at his recent committee appearance over the partygate affair, asked Mr Diddi, a former mafia defence lawyer,
for a meeting in order to “understand your position as to what occurred, and why”.
Mr Vamos copied his letter to various agencies including the CPS, the Home Office and the National Crime Agency.
In the letter, he challenged claims that the funds for investment came from St Peter’s Pence,
charitable Catholic donations intended for the needy, rather than Credit Suisse.
“You claimed that the funds for the investment by the Vatican came from Peter’s Pence, when in fact you knew that they were provided by Credit Suisse…
and you therefore wrongly characterised the deal as a misuse of charitable funds,”
wrote Mr Vamos.
“You claimed that the Vatican… was the subscriber, when in fact the subscriber was Credit Suisse… and you therefore wrongly characterised the investment.”
“This raises a number of potential issues as a matter of English law… the factual misstatements and omissions in your evidence raises the question of whether you committed the offence of
perverting the course of justice contrary to English common law.”
The Vatican has been contacted for comment.
Previously, a Vatican spokesman has commented: “The legitimacy of the investigations and the correspondence of the Vatican judiciary system to the principles of fair trial has been recognised by various foreign courts.”
Reference: The Telegraph: Charles Hymas
Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus-The Importance of Demons
The Importance of Demons
The ancient Mediterranean world taught that priestesses, witches, diviners and poets possessed the ability to open portals through which sentient powers or " demons" who inhabited extra-worldy planes could travel to the material universe.
These beings, these powers-that-be, did not have a physical form; they were not composed of "atoms,"the indivisible elements of our world, and they did not have eyes, ears, mouths, voices, or, in fact, any human or biological attributes at all.
And perhaps most importantly, these immortals were neither male or female; they were neither and yet they were both.
In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence. Greek and Latin culture, preserved in the amber of ancient literature, perpetuated the view that Gods are the immortal "elements" of an ordered and living universe.
For example, Aphrodite is the desire of sexual attraction; Dionysus is ecstasy; Athena is civic justice. Unlike humans, the gods aren't born, they don't age, and they don't die. They are in perpetual bloom.
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Myth was the medium in which the classical world expressed the efflorescene of the immortal forces of the universe.
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Greek and Roman myth had an extraordinary influence on ancient artists, statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers.
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It was a cultural cement that facilitated the construction of democracy, the establishment of education, and the creation of the scientific method.
Ancient myth was a metaphor for expressing the individuality and actions of the immortal powers that govern the universe.
Reference: Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus: Author: Dr.David C.A Hillman
Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus
Introduction
Religion is a wormhole: it is multidimensional, collapsible bridge in space that only a thirteen year-old girl in the bloom of life can open..... and only when she has entered a state of heigntened sexual arousal.
According to ancient Etruscan sibyls, the teenage priestess who established the norms for much of the Roman culture, religion is a method of cosmic tunneling; it's a practice that creates a fluid structure through which dark-matter-breathing beings can travel in order to possess their maddened devotees
The ancient world believed religion was a resonant span across the fabric of space[time; and ancient clerics taught that its thremodynamic seal could be forcefully broken open with the songs of maidens,
The Romans spoke classical Latin. Their word "religio, " from which we derive our English word "religion," means "ligature" or "binding".
Modern historians overtly influenced by their own Christian cultural lens, have interpreted this to mean religion is something that binds us to do and say certain things in velebration of divinity; in other words, religion is what we owe the gods.
Nothing could be further from the historical actuality. In Rome, "religio" was simply the cosmic tie that bound the Earth-plane to the rest of the multiverse. It was a means to an end; it was a force of extra-dimensional attraction.
In the Greco-Roman way of thinking, gods are the cosmic bloom of existence.
Reference: Hermaphrodites Gynomorphs and Jesus: Author: Dr.David C.A Hillman
Pope updates Catholic Church rules for dealing with sexual abuse
Pope updates Catholic Church rules for dealing with sexual abuse
The Pope has updated the church's rules for dealing with sexual abuse, expanding its scope to include lay Catholic leaders and spelling out that both minors and adults can be victims.
It follows a landmark decree in 2019 that made it obligatory for all priests and members of religious orders to report any suspicions of abuse. It also holds bishops directly accountable for any abuse they commit themselves or cover-up.
The provisions were initially introduced on a temporary basis, but on Saturday the Vatican said they would become definitive from April 30 and include additional elements aimed at strengthening the fight against abuse within the church.
Abuse scandals have shredded the Vatican's reputation in the last ten years, and Pope Francis has passed a series of measures aimed at holding the institution's hierarchy accountable.
But he himself came under huge scrutiny in 2018 after the global church sex abuse scandal made headlines again, and was even accused of having known about certain allegations and helping to cover them up.
Speaking in 2019, he vowed to confront the "destructive evil" of child sex abuse within the Catholic church.
But critics say the results have been mixed and have accused Francis of being reluctant to defrock abusive prelates.
Fresh allegations of sexual abuse
Just a month ago the Roman Catholic religious order of Jesuits said accusations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against one of its most prominent members were "highly credible".
About 25 people, mostly former nuns, have accused Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, 69, a well-known religious artist of various forms of abuse, either when he was a spiritual director of a community of nuns in his native Slovenia about 30 years ago, or after he moved to Rome to pursue his career as an artist.
Rupnik has not spoken publicly of the accusations.
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