Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. | Reuters
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.
Orlandi then said in his own words on the show: “They tell me Wojtyla used to go out in the evenings with two Polish monsignors and it certainly was not to bless houses”. “Certain that I am interpreting the sentiments of the faithful from all over the world, I express a grateful thought to the memory of St. John Paul, who in these days has been the object of offensive and unfounded insinuations,” Francis said.Diddi summoned Pietro Orlandi’s lawyer, Laura Sgro, on Saturday. The Vatican said she invoked attorney-client privileges.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was John Paul’s secretary throughout his leadership, called Orlandi’s actions “ignoble, unrealistic, laughable if they were not tragic, even criminal”.
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