Vatican Coat-of-Arms
Vatican Coat-of-Arms
VATICANENORMOUSLY WEALTHY MONEY-LAUNDERING HOUSE OF FAITH
... In a statement published in connection with a bond prospectus, the Boston archdiocese listed its assets at Six Hundred and Thirty-five Million ($635,891,004), which is 9.9 times its liabilities. This leaves a net worth of Five Hundred and Seventy-one million dollars ($571,704,953). It is not difficult to discover the truly astonishing wealth of the church, once we add the riches of the twenty-eight archdioceses and 122 dioceses of the U.S.A., some of which are even wealthier than that of Boston.
... Some idea of the real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic church may be gathered by the remark of a member of the New York Catholic Conference, namely 'that his church probably ranks second only to the United States Government in total annual purchase.' Another statement, made by a nationally syndicated Catholic priest, perhaps is even more telling. 'The Catholic church,' he said, 'must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.
... The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.
... The Vatican's treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.
... The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.
...The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations... The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"In the U.S. Catholic Church , there are 195 dioceses and the national headquarters of both the bishops and their "charities." The bishops control 40,000 organizations, agencies and foundations each with a 501(c)(3) tax code. They pay no taxes, provide a tax deduction to their donors, and are under no obligation to produce financial statements which show where their money comes from or where it goes.
While Americans fret over the Koch brothers (no. 41 on Forbe's list), Citizens United and "dark money" SuperPACs, the Catholic Church can move unlimited funds - foreign and domestic - to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts, every means the plutocracy has found to subvert our democracy."
While Americans fret over the Koch brothers (no. 41 on Forbe's list), Citizens United and "dark money" SuperPACs, the Catholic Church can move unlimited funds - foreign and domestic - to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts, every means the plutocracy has found to subvert our democracy."
Betty Clermont in an article "European Plutocrats Covered Up Vatican Money Laundering"
"In the months before the 1948 Italian national election, the CIA dumped $65 million of its black money into the Vatican Bank. Much of the cash was hand delivered in large suitcases by members of Lucky Luciano's syndicate.
... Heroin, which remained the source for the black money, was supplied to the Sicilian mob by Schiaparelli, the Italian pharmaceutical giant. The drugs were received by a chain of businesses that had been set up in Palermo, Sicily by Lucky Luciano.
... In Cuba, Santo Trafficante cut the heroin with sugar before delivering it to distributors in New Orleans, Miami, and New York. The CIA established protected drug routes into these ports by developing close ties to the Mafia-tainted International Longshoremen's Association. The movement of the product throughout the country was facilitated by Jimmy Hoffa and other leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters working with Mafia-owned trucking companies.
... The CIA's black money for Mafia muscle was paid out by the Vatican bank from ecclesiastical organizations, including Catholic Action. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with the Sicilian Mafia, an alliance that would strengthen throughout the next three decades. The force of the Mafia was now unleashed upon the Italian electorate.
... Throughout 1948, in Sicily alone, the CIA-backed terror attacks resulted in the killing of on average five people a week. "
... Heroin, which remained the source for the black money, was supplied to the Sicilian mob by Schiaparelli, the Italian pharmaceutical giant. The drugs were received by a chain of businesses that had been set up in Palermo, Sicily by Lucky Luciano.
... In Cuba, Santo Trafficante cut the heroin with sugar before delivering it to distributors in New Orleans, Miami, and New York. The CIA established protected drug routes into these ports by developing close ties to the Mafia-tainted International Longshoremen's Association. The movement of the product throughout the country was facilitated by Jimmy Hoffa and other leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters working with Mafia-owned trucking companies.
... The CIA's black money for Mafia muscle was paid out by the Vatican bank from ecclesiastical organizations, including Catholic Action. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with the Sicilian Mafia, an alliance that would strengthen throughout the next three decades. The force of the Mafia was now unleashed upon the Italian electorate.
... Throughout 1948, in Sicily alone, the CIA-backed terror attacks resulted in the killing of on average five people a week. "
Paul L. William in his book "Operation Gladio", 2015
"The Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), commonly referred to as the Vatican Bank, is a privately held financial institution located inside Vatican City. Founded in 1942, the IOR's role is to safeguard and administer property intended for works of religion or charity. The bank accepts deposits only from top Church officials and entities, according to Italian legal scholar Settimio Caridi. It is run by a president but overseen by five cardinals who report directly to the Vatican and the Vatican's secretary of state. Because so little is known about the bank's daily operations and transactions, it has often been called "the most secret bank in the world"
Ari Jorish, 2012
"The Italian mafia was founded by Guiseppe Mazzini, the 33rd Degree Illuminati Grand Master Mason of the P-2 Lodge. P-2 is close to the Vatican Bank and funded South America's fascist drug-ridden governments of the 1970's.
... The Vatican's Opus Dei had strong ties to P-2 and Patria y Libertad South American fascist movements. The CIA and P-2 propped up the narco-terrorist regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru during the 1990s."
... The Vatican's Opus Dei had strong ties to P-2 and Patria y Libertad South American fascist movements. The CIA and P-2 propped up the narco-terrorist regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru during the 1990s."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"The real value of the Catholic Church is its secret worldwide monetary network headquartered in a sovereign state and a financial division in the Cayman Islands with no accountability or fear of criminal prosecution.
The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world, each one appointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyalty to the Church above all else, as heads of dioceses. Each one has the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush funds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of "freedom of religion," most can operate with little or no governmental oversight. Since money launderers usually get a 5-10% cut, the continued wealth of the Vatican is assured."
The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world, each one appointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyalty to the Church above all else, as heads of dioceses. Each one has the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush funds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of "freedom of religion," most can operate with little or no governmental oversight. Since money launderers usually get a 5-10% cut, the continued wealth of the Vatican is assured."
Betty Clermont in an article "European Plutocrats Covered Up Vatican Money Laundering"
"Created in 1942, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), is commonly known as the Vatican Bank... The bank remains a sovereign financial agency within a sovereign state. It is an entity unto itself, without corporate or ecclesiastical ties to any other agency of the Holy See. As such, it cannot be forced to release the source of any deposit. The bank resides under the direct jurisdiction of the pope. He owns it; he controls it. Swiss guards are stationed to guard the entrance to the bank, and the hermetically sealed bronze doors open only to select members of the Roman Curia-the governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church.
... Because of its clandestine workings, millions can be deposited into the IOR on a continuous basis and channeled into numbered Swiss bank accounts without the possibility of detection. It was the perfect place for the CIA and the Sicilian Mafia to launder their ill-gotten gains of the narcotics trade and for the Roman Church to fund its political mission. And [according to Moneyval the anti-money-laundering committee of the Council of Europe] it remains one of the world's leading laundries for dirty cash."
... Because of its clandestine workings, millions can be deposited into the IOR on a continuous basis and channeled into numbered Swiss bank accounts without the possibility of detection. It was the perfect place for the CIA and the Sicilian Mafia to launder their ill-gotten gains of the narcotics trade and for the Roman Church to fund its political mission. And [according to Moneyval the anti-money-laundering committee of the Council of Europe] it remains one of the world's leading laundries for dirty cash."
Paul L. William in his book "Operation Gladio", 2015
"By the end of this decade, we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations, a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world government is inevitable."
Pope John Paul II, 1990
"The Vatican's secretive Opus Dei "saintly Mafia" was behind the ascent of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to the Papacy. Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II and launched an Opus Dei/ Vatican offensive to roll back Latin American liberation theology movement... During the 1940's he was a chemical salesman for Nazi combine I. G. Farben. Wojtyla sold the Nazis the cyanide they used at their Auschwitz death camps."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"Operation Condor is the code name given for intelligence collection on leftists, communists and Marxists in the Southern Cone Area. It was established between cooperating intelligence services in South America in order to eliminate Marxist terrorist activities in member countries with Chile reportedly being the center of operations. Other participating members include: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. Members showing the most enthusiasm to date have been Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.
... Operation Condor, a program intended to eradicate Communist groups and movements throughout South America, got underway in the early 1970s, when Opus Dei elicited support from Chilean bishops for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of president Salvador Allende.
... Every phase of the operation, including the purging of the left-wing clerics, received the tacit approval of the pope (Francis)."
... Operation Condor, a program intended to eradicate Communist groups and movements throughout South America, got underway in the early 1970s, when Opus Dei elicited support from Chilean bishops for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of president Salvador Allende.
... Every phase of the operation, including the purging of the left-wing clerics, received the tacit approval of the pope (Francis)."
US Department of Defense Document, October 1, 1976
"The Vatican rules over approximately 2bn of the worlds 6.2bn people. The colossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France, USA, with giant oil & weapons corporations like Shell & General Electric. The Vatican solid gold bullion, worth billions is stored with the Rothschild controlled Bank of England & the US Federal Reserve Bank.
The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence, possessing more material wealth than any bank, corporation, giant trust or government anywhere on the globe.
Between 1095-1291 AD the Popes launched 7 blood baths called the Christian Crusades, torturing, murdering, beheading & mass murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims & Jews in the name of God. The Pope's brutal solders were called Knights Templar or Knights of the Temple of Solomon & evolved into today's secretive brotherhood called the Freemasons.
Between 1450-1700 AD the Catholic Church followed up their holy terror with the inquisition. Based on rumours of practicing witchcraft, the Catholic Church hunted down, tortured & burned-alive 10 s of 1000 s of innocent women at the stake.
During WWII the Vatican was criticized for supporting Hitler & his Nazi regime. To this day, the Vatican is still under investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewish holocaust victims."
The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence, possessing more material wealth than any bank, corporation, giant trust or government anywhere on the globe.
Between 1095-1291 AD the Popes launched 7 blood baths called the Christian Crusades, torturing, murdering, beheading & mass murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslims & Jews in the name of God. The Pope's brutal solders were called Knights Templar or Knights of the Temple of Solomon & evolved into today's secretive brotherhood called the Freemasons.
Between 1450-1700 AD the Catholic Church followed up their holy terror with the inquisition. Based on rumours of practicing witchcraft, the Catholic Church hunted down, tortured & burned-alive 10 s of 1000 s of innocent women at the stake.
During WWII the Vatican was criticized for supporting Hitler & his Nazi regime. To this day, the Vatican is still under investigation for plundering Nazi gold from the Swiss bank accounts of Jewish holocaust victims."
The Hidden Empire: The Vatican City : The City of London : The District of Columbia
http://lightworkersxm.wordpress.com, August 2012
http://lightworkersxm.wordpress.com, August 2012
"The IOR (Institute for Works of Religion) - the Vatican Bank is a unique 'off shore' corridor for politicians around the world who want to keep their money away from legal controls.The IOR is like a credit card that ensures privileges to be granted in exchange for political backing, legal provisions and business support."
Gianluigi Nuzzi in his book "Vaticano S.p.A.", published January 1, 2009
"The real value of the Catholic Church is its secret worldwide monetary network headquartered in a sovereign state and a financial division in the Cayman Islands with no accountability or fear of criminal prosecution.
The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world - each one appointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyalty to the Church above all else - as heads of dioceses. Each one has the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush funds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of "freedom of religion," most can operate with little or no governmental oversight."
The Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world - each one appointed by the Pope based on the man's demonstrated loyalty to the Church above all else - as heads of dioceses. Each one has the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush funds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of "freedom of religion," most can operate with little or no governmental oversight."
Avi Jorisch
"Pablo Escobar and other leading drug lords were encouraged by the CIA to deposit their earnings in eight firms that had been set up by the Vatican as money laundries. By 1978, when John Paul II ascended to the papal throne, the money coming in to these firms from the Medellin Cartel alone was enormous, since Escobar, at the height of his power, was smuggling fifteen tons of cocaine into the United States every day.
... The money the money-laundering firms received was wired or transported by courier, often a cleric, to the central headquarters of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan. From Milan, the money was re-routed to the IOR (Vatican Bank) which charged a processing fee of 15 to 20 percent. From Vatican City, the funds were transferred to numbered bank accounts in Switzerland.
... The funds generated from the cocaine sales were used to sponsor black operations in South and Central America. A substantial amount of this cash was funneled into the IOR's (Vatican Bank) offshore shells."
... The money the money-laundering firms received was wired or transported by courier, often a cleric, to the central headquarters of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan. From Milan, the money was re-routed to the IOR (Vatican Bank) which charged a processing fee of 15 to 20 percent. From Vatican City, the funds were transferred to numbered bank accounts in Switzerland.
... The funds generated from the cocaine sales were used to sponsor black operations in South and Central America. A substantial amount of this cash was funneled into the IOR's (Vatican Bank) offshore shells."
Paul L. William in his book "Operation Gladio", 2015
"Operation Gladio was a secret NATO strategy implemented after WWII that advocated an alliance between the mafia, CIA, Vatican and Knights of Malta."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"The Vatican rules over approximately 2 billion of the world's 6.1 billion people. The colossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous investments with the Rothschild's in Britain, France, and the USA, and with giant oil and weapons corporations like Shell and General Electric. The Vatican solid gold bullion worth billions, is stored with the Rothschild controlled Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve Bank."
Alan Lamont
"The Vatican ... is the largest single organization involved in the illegal movement of emigrants . . . [and] the justification . . . for its participation in this illegal traffic is simply the propagation of the Faith. It is the Vatican's desire to assist any person, regardless of nationality or political beliefs, as long as that person can prove himself to be a Catholic." The classified study confirmed that Nazis and their collaborators were not excluded from the effort: "[I]n those Latin American countries where the Church is a controlling or dominating factor, the Vatican has brought pressure to bear which has resulted in the foreign missions of those countries taking an attitude almost favoring the entry into their country of former Nazis and former Fascists or other political groups, so long as they are anti-Communist. That, in fact, is the practice in effect in the Latin American Consulates and Missions in Rome at the present time."
top secret U.S. State Department intelligence report of May 1947
"The Vatican played a key role in the emergence of the cocaine trade in the 1970s by offering the drug cartels its money-laundering service in exchange for stiff fees. To initiate this process, the Holy See established a chain of shell companies in Panama and the Bahamas that transferred deposits from the cartels to Banco Ambrosiano and other Italian banks. From these private and parochial banks, the money flowed to the IOR (the Vatican Bank) and from the IOR to financial firms in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein."
Paul L. William in his book "Operation Gladio", 2015
"The Vatican is the world's largest owner of equities."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"Under pressure from the U.S. Treasury Department, JP Morgan Chase notified the Vatican on March 16, 2012, that it closed the IOR account in its Milan branch because the IOR was "unable to respond" to information about the provenance of the deposits. JP Morgan had been requesting the information since 2010.
JP Morgan reported ¤1.8 billion ($2,200,000,000) had been deposited in the last 18 months in the account. At the end of each day, the balance was reduced to zero and the contents moved to an IOR account in Frankfurt. According to Spiegel, investigators suspected the account was used to launder funds from "dubious sources."
JP Morgan reported ¤1.8 billion ($2,200,000,000) had been deposited in the last 18 months in the account. At the end of each day, the balance was reduced to zero and the contents moved to an IOR account in Frankfurt. According to Spiegel, investigators suspected the account was used to launder funds from "dubious sources."
Susan Pittman of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, to Reuters, March 7, 2012
"In 1982 Reagan met with Pope John Paul II... At the meeting the two agreed to launch a clandestine program to tear Eastern Europe away from the Soviets. Poland, the Pope's country of origin, would be the key. Catholic priests, the AFL-CIO, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Vatican Bank and CIA would all be deployed."
Dean Henderson in his book "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf"
"Early in the 19th century the Pope came to the Rothschilds to borrow money... The Rothschilds over time were entrusted with the bulk of the Vatican's wealth. "
Fritz Springmaier in his book "Bloodlines of the illuminati"
"One week after his election, Pope John Paul received a preliminary report on the internal workings of the Vatican Bank. The bank, which had been formed to further "religious works," was now serving a distinctly secular purpose. Of the 11,000 accounts within its registry, fewer than 1,650 served to further an ecclesiastical cause. The remaining 9,350 accounts served as "slush funds" for special friends of the Vatican ... and leading Sicilian Mafiosi, including the Corleone, Spatola, and Inzerillo families and members of the Camorra of Naples and Milan... Other accounts were held by leading Italian politicians and businessmen in service to Operation Gladio; and still others for the foreign embassies of Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and other countries."
Paul L. William in his book "Operation Gladio", 2015
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