Pope Francis assured this Sunday that John Paul II was the target of “insulting and unfounded” speculation, alluding to the controversy sparked by statements by Pietro Orlandi, the brother of a teenager who disappeared in 1983, a case that is again being investigated by the Vatican. .
“Clearly interpreting the feelings of believers from all over the world, I turn with a grateful thought to the memory of St. John Paul II, who these days is the object of insulting and unfounded conclusions,” the head of the Catholic Church said after Sunday Sunday. the Regina Coeli prayer, which replaces the traditional Angelus between Easter Sunday and Pentecost.
Thousands of believers who gathered in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican met his words with thunderous applause, which arose in the midst of strong disagreements between the Orlandi family and the Vatican after the statements of the brother of the missing girl.
Pietro Orlandi hinted that Pope John Paul II was leaving the Vatican at night with some bishops to look for youth in Rome.
Orlandi, who has always struggled to find out the fate of his sister, then 15, and who this week testified for the first time before the prosecutor of the Holy See, assured that it was known in the Vatican that John Paul II often left the house. with the Polish Monsignors, and that some people say that “he certainly did not intend to bless the houses.”
Shortly thereafter, the official Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano (owned by the Dicastery of Public Relations of the Holy See) described Orlandi’s accusations as “insanity”, calling them “a media massacre that saddens and hurts the hearts of millions of believers and non-believers”. believers,” in an editorial by Andrea Tornielli, director of the publication.
We are talking about the disappearance in the center of Rome in June 1983 of Emanuela Orlandi, a young citizen of the Vatican, the daughter of an official of the Holy See, who lived within the walls of the Vatican.
The case gained renewed attention after the premiere of the Netflix documentary The Vatican Girl.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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