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Vic, 1956. Journalist and historian.

For 35 years he has been a special envoy of the TV3 newscasts to

Rome

and the

Vatican

.

In

Intrigues and Power in the Vatican

or (Rock) reveals many of the mysteries of the smallest state in the world.

You have 20 confidants in a place as hermetic as the Vatican. How did you do it? In the Vatican, as elsewhere, you can make two types of information: the official, based on official statements and statements, or try to go a little further. In the Vatican, where a rather opaque and non-transparent information policy is practiced (although lately things are changing), you have to have different information sources. Over the years I have tried to collect dozens of people, who now more than confidants and informative sources are friends, with whom I have generated a climate of trust and who have told me things, always anonymously because most He fears reprisals One of the testimonies he cites in his book, and which I acknowledge has impacted me,is that of the doctor who first came to see the body of John Paul I after his death ... Yes. I think it is an exceptional testimony, and very sad at the same time, about the death of a pope whose pontificate only lasted 33 days. The doctor who gave me that testimony had never spoken of it before nor will he speak, because he has already died. But I think it gives the clue as to what happened. According to what he confessed to you, John Paul I would have been poisoned, right? You are right. Everything indicates that John Paul I could have been poisoned and that behind his death there would have been, as always, a conspiracy to try to avoid reforms. John Paul I seems to have been working on a profound reform of the Vatican Bank, an institution that throughout history has caused a strong storm in the Holy See. And keep provoking it:A few months ago, the scandal for which Cardinal Becciu is now being tried took place, who bought a property in London with money from the Vatican Bank destined for the poor.

John Paul I, would he have been assassinated by members of the Vatican itself? Yes. Apparently there was an internal conspiracy with great characters behind, characters who wanted to preserve the privileges that existed and who were not at all willing to give them up. And in fact the assassination of John Paul I changed the course of history: the following pontificates, that of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, were extremely conservative and gave an important turn to what could have been the transformative and reformist pontificate of the Church of Pope Luciani. The pontificate of Pope Francis is very much in line with that of John Paul I, Bergoglio intends to end privileges and reform the Church. Is your life in danger? When you ask Francisco about that, he points to the sky and says that he knows from a good source that it is not his turn yet.It is the reaction of a Pope who laughs at himself, who is constantly joking and who is very close to the people and also to the media. But right now there is clearly a conspiracy against Francisco. I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but there is no doubt that there is an organized plot to abort the reforms that Pope Francis is trying to carry out.

And who is behind that plot? It is a plot that goes far beyond the Vatican and is led by such figures as Steve Bannon, who was an adviser to Donald Trump, the man who brought President Trump to the White House. Bannon is advising political leaders and groups everywhere to lead the world toward more neoliberal and neo-fascist governments, to governments that can disrupt freedoms and democracy. And Pope Francis is somehow a stone in the shoe in this project. Why?

Because Francisco is a man in favor of migratory currents and against walls, because he is very involved in the fight against climate change, in favor of Covid vaccines being free for everyone ... Francisco breaks the paradigm and current scheme of a world with conservative tendencies and in many cases neo-fascist Domenico Giani, head of the Vatican Gendarmerie from 2006 to 2019, assured in 2015 that they had data that showed that there were specific threats against Francis ... Threats against the Pope there have been many. I have leaks that speak of two attempts to attack him by organized Islamic jihadist teams and two other attacks, very advanced in operational practice, which came from the extreme right of the United States.but with European participation and even Spanish participation in some aspects. What is the Holy Alliance?


The Holy Alliance is nothing other than the secret services of the Vatican, of which very little is said and which have enormous potential. In the book there is a very 'sui generis' interview with a member of the Vatican secret services in which he reveals some guidelines for their actions and how they collaborate with other Western secret services such as the CIA or the Spanish CNI. The KGB considered the Vatican secret services to be infinitely more dangerous than the CIA itself. Why? Fundamentally because there are many members of the Holy Alliance who are priests, and therefore have an ease of penetration in certain circles to which the laity do not have that access. And let's not forget the secret of confession either:In thousands of confessionals around the world, important and sensitive information is collected for the security of the Holy See. This has allowed agents of the KGB, probably the most important secret service in the world after the CIA and Mossad, to consider the Vatican secret services very dangerous. Furthermore, in times of the Cold War and the struggle between the capitalist world and communism, the Vatican secret service was indeed much more dangerous than the CIA itself, which did not have access to many circles where agents could enter. Vatican. Is it all that network of secret services and the opacity of the Vatican that has allowed cases of pedophilia and sexual abuse to remain hidden for so many years while they were still being practiced? I don't know if it has been a crucial element,but important. The impunity of the Church has been given by the Vatican leadership itself, which has not only done nothing for decades but has covered up all these criminals and ignored the victims. And of course the Vatican secret services have also intervened, aborting when any possibility that many of the important scandals in sexual matters or economic corruption that have occurred in the Holy See came to light. Why did Benedict XVI resign? It was during his pontificate that the great scandal ofAnd of course the Vatican secret services have also intervened, aborting when any possibility that many of the important scandals in sexual matters or economic corruption that have occurred in the Holy See came to light. Why did Benedict XVI resign? It was during his pontificate that the great scandal ofAnd of course the Vatican secret services have also intervened, aborting when any possibility that many of the important scandals in sexual matters or economic corruption that have occurred in the Holy See came to light. Why did Benedict XVI resign? It was during his pontificate that the great scandal of

Vatileaks

. And there is a before and after

Vatileaks

in the recent history of the Holy See. The

Vatileaks

scandals

They represented a true slab of many tons on the back of Pope Ratzinger, and that produced an important physical and mental decline that led him to a historic and courageous act, becoming the first pope in contemporary history to resign from the pontificate. His resignation meant, after all, opening a small crack so that fresh air, fresh air, could begin to enter the Catholic Church. And Pope Francis tries to widen that gap and turn it into a window through which a great stream of renovating air enters the Church. much bigger than he thought?

Yes. Benedict XVI discovered that in his environment there was a corruption that was already systemic, a culture of abuse that was part of the Church's own idiosyncrasy for centuries and that is a secular practice over all seminaries. Ratzinger resigns after discovering power struggles within the Holy See, the economic scandals of the Vatican Bank (where 3,000 checking accounts were discovered that had nothing to do with the Church and that were linked to the mafia and organized crime), the existence even of a brothel within the walls of the Vatican and before the scandals of pedophilia in schools, in seminaries and in parishes around the world that came to light.

How has the matter of the bishop of Solsona fallen into the Vatican? It has caused a real earthquake. The Pope said that he could go to Santiago de Compostela in the coming months, go to Manresa on the occasion of the year of Saint Ignatius ... But for the moment everything has been postponed due to the scandal of the bishop of Solsona. And what do they say in the Holy See of the process?

They are fed up with that subject.

There has been pressure from the Generalitat of Catalonia and the pro-independence sectors for the Vatican to recognize the eventual Catalan republic or, at least, the right to decide in a referendum, and many pressures also from the Spanish Government and the Embassy Spanish before the Holy See so that the Holy See could make an unequivocal declaration on the unity of Spain.

The satiety has reached the pope himself.

In a meeting I had with him, when he found out that he was Catalan, he told me: "Don't talk to me about the procés, tell me about Messi."

And now not even Messi ...

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