Pope Francis says his predecessor Saint John Paul II has been the subject of 'offensive and unfounded insinuations.'
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday, April 16, rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about his predecessor as pontiff, Saint John Paul II.
After speaking to Diddi for more than eight hours, Pietro Orlandi appeared on a television program where he played part of an audio recording with the voice of a man Orlandi said was part of an organized crime group that Italian media have for decades speculated may have been involved in his sister’s disappearance.
The comments caused a storm and were condemned by Vatican officials in the past few days before the pope himself entered the fray at his noon address to about 20,000 people in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican’s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, earlier condemned Orlandi’s comments as a “sleazy” vilification of the pontiff, who led the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005 and was declared a saint in 2014.
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