Vatican accused of cover-up over teenage girl’s mysterious disappearance

There has been speculation that Miss Orlandi was murdered and her remains
hidden in the tomb alongside De Pedis.

Prosecutors in Rome have for the first time explicitly pointed the finger at
the Vatican, saying that senior cardinals are covering up the truth.

Giancarlo Capaldo, a senior prosecutor who is investigating the case, said he
had found evidence that serving members of the Curia — the Vatican’s
governing body — knew much more than they were saying about Emanuela’s
disappearance.

“There are people still alive, and still inside the Vatican, who know the
truth,” the prosecutor was quoted as saying by Corriere della Sera.

Pietro Orlandi, Miss Orlandi’s brother, seized on the remarks, saying it was
time for the Vatican to come clean and calling on investigators to open the
tomb of De Pedis to establish whether it contained his sister’s remains.
“The Holy See now has a moral duty to give a response after refusing for
years to collaborate with the magistracy,” he said. “Their silence is
becoming embarrassing.”

The Vatican insists that it has divulged all it knew about the case. “If
someone on the inside had known something, they would have said,” said
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, 78, who was number three in the Vatican
Secretariat of State at the time. “We were all interested in clarifying the
matter, but unfortunately we were not able to find out anything about it.”

Over the years it has been claimed that Emanuela’s kidnapping was carried out
on the orders of a Catholic archbishop, Paul Marcinkus, the disgraced head
of the Vatican bank, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione. The IOR was
involved in the bankruptcy of Italy’s largest private bank, the Banco
Ambrosiano, in 1982.

Its president, Roberto Calvi, nicknamed “God’s Banker”, was found hanged
beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, with investigators unable to rule
whether he had committed suicide or was murdered, possibly by the Mafia.

The Vatican has denied that Archbishop Marcinkus, who died in 2006, had
anything to do with the teenager’s disappearance.

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