Thursday, November 1, 2018

IN the NEWS - Is it Emanuela or Mirella?

We will have to wait for the answer from Roman Police.....

"Human remains have been found on a Church property in Rome, and some speculate they are connected to a decades-old missing person case.
The papal nunciature in Rome was undergoing renovations when human bones were uncovered in the basement on Monday.
Details are slim on what bones were found, however, according to Italian agency ANSA, the bones consist of a skull and teeth.
Emanuela
The building, located outside Vatican City, is the residence of the Pope's nuncio, or ambassador, to Italy.
There is speculation that the remains could belong to Emanuela Orlandi, a teenage girl in the 1980s who mysteriously went missing.
Emanuela was the daughter of Ercole Orlandi, a lay official at the Vatican. She went missing in 1983 at the age of 15.
At the time, it was thought that she was possibly kidnapped. In the years that followed, investigators became almost certain that it was a kidnapping.
A wide variety of theories have swirled about her likely kidnapping and potential death.

Shortly after Emanuela vanished, there were anonymous tips by two young men, "Pietroluigi" and "Mario." Each of them claimed he had spoken with a young woman who fit the description. They both provided accurate details about Emanuela's appearance and behavior. A few days later, Pope St. John Paul II appealed for the girl's release, as there were suspicions that she had been kidnapped. 
But some theorize Emanuela was actually murdered by the Banda della Magliana (the Magliana gang), a notoriously ruthless criminal organization in Rome. It is speculated that her father, Ercole, had stumbled across damning evidence of corruption in the Vatican Bank that implicated the gang, and they killed his daughter as a warning for him to be quiet. In 2008, a source told the police that she thought Emanuela was killed by Magliana gangsters at the orders of Abp. Paul Marcinkus, who was then head of the Vatican Bank.
The Vatican has been accused of a cover-up in connection to the girl's disappearance. Giancarlo Capaldo, a senior  prosecutor on the case, said in 2012, "There are people still alive, and still inside the Vatican, who know the truth."
 
Also in 2012, Rome's chief exorcist said the girl's disappearance was likely connected to a sex abuse ring. Exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth (who died in 2016) told La Stampa"This was a crime with a sexual motive. Parties were organized, with a Vatican gendarme acting as the 'recruiter' of the girls."

Father Amorth continued, "The network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle."
That same year, Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi claimed he obtained a five-page memo from a locked cabinet inside the Vatican that implicated Church leaders for hiding information about the teenage girl's kidnapping. However, even Fittipaldi had his doubts about the document's authenticity. 

Still more speculation ran wild in 2013 when Pope Francis, then recently elected, told family members of the missing person, "Emanuela is in Heaven." Emanuela's brother, Pietro, told the Pope that he was still hopeful that his sister would be found alive one day. After the encounter, Pietro started wondering whether Pope Francis secretly knew his sister's fate, and accidentally let the goose out. But many thought Pope Francis was just trying to offer comfort and chose the wrong thing to
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say.

Mirella Gregori is another young Italian woman who also disappeared in 1983, just over a month ahead of when Orlandi went missing. Police are likely to make DNA comparisons to determine whether the bones belong to either of the young women.
Gregori, then 16, disappeared exactly 40 days before Orlandi.
Her mother says she answered the intercom at the family apartment before telling her parents it was a school friend and she was going out to speak to him. She never returned.
Investigators have not ruled out that the cases could be connected."
ChurchMilitant/CRUX/Telegraph
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution,
whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

or to governors as sent by him
to punish those who do evil.....
1 Peter 2:13,14