Since the papacy of Pope Clement XII in 1738, the Church had tried to eradicate the High Masons, issuing papal edicts(ten between 1821 and 1902 alone) ordering the excommunication of any Catholic who entered the society. But Rastas felt the upper-degree or High Masons had prevailed, corrupting the bishops of Rome. This was how, in the Rasta's view, Pope Pius XII had been induced to turn his back on Nazi genocide of the Jews and then to help the CIA hide Nazis in South America and the States after World War II. Following the death in 1963 of Pius's saintly successor, Pope John XXIII, the papal miter was passed to Paul VI, formerly Giovanni Montini, archbishop of Milan. During his wartime span as a monsignor, Montini was one of four section leaders of Vatican intelligence. Through Montini, General William Donovan of the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS(the forerunner of the CIA), established permanent ties with the Vatican.
Therefore, Rastas felt, the first Holy Father with a modern espionage background allowed the Throne of Peter to become a tool of the CIA and then P2, through the ministrations of Michele Sindona and the secret lodge's Grand Master, Licio Gelli(at whose home Italian police ultimately found the list of 953 plotting Masons). Once Rome had surrendered its moral authority, its solfe source of power became money. So effective was the rape of the Vatican avowed by the Masons ("It will fall", said one nineteenth-century Grand Master, "beneath our vivifying Mallet!") that the Church was entering the 1990s facing the specter of bankruptcy.
Yes, the Rastas raged, the Vatican is the doomed latter-day Babylon decried in Revelation, where it is said John Paul I was poisoned in 1978 when he threatened to expose its iniquity, and where L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican City's own newspaper, now urges a mellowing of sacred anti-Masonry canons! "For her sins are piled high as heaven," warned Revelation 18, "and God has not forgotten her crimes. . . .The traders . . . who gained their wealth from her will stand at a distance for horror at her torment, weeping and mourning and saying, "Alas, alas for the great city, that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, bedizened with gold and jewels and pearls! Alas that in one hour so much wealth should be laid waste!"
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