‘God’s Bankers’: New Book on Vatican’s Misuse of Funds

UNITED STATES
Wall Street Journal

[with video]

2/3/2015

Gerald Posner discusses his new book “God’s Bankers,” in which he says the Vatican Bank was founded by a Nazi spy, the same institution helped siphon funds for illicit reasons, and how a “gay network’ in the Vatican may have helped oust Pope Benedict. Photo: Getty.

TRANSCRIPT –

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… Pope Francis making strides to bring some transplants eight to one of the world’s most opaque institutions … the Vatican Bank … may be even more questionable things going on of that than most people couldn’t imagine … that’s what our next guest says it’s Gerald PostNL opening new vocal gold to bankers have a Cobia thank you Brian much for being so thanks for having me I’m because we will was surfing through about a Vatican Bank is a mysterious place so aam did you put some pretty interesting … things to get ahead why did you want this book will get to some of the things that you found I wrote the book because I wanted to find out what was going on behind the scenes was this mysterious and the news was we thought it turns out to be just as bad as one could imagine I did it actually seems to be even worse the money I can imagine that made it a summit did make some of the opinion of the fictional stuff seemed tank so the fuss thing that is that you use a former man say … when was the man who founder and former Nazi was the spike found that the Vatican idea I mean the men who founded the Vatican Bank in the middle of World War two so the Vatican Bank and avoiding keep doing business with the Nazis in the entire time the Americans and British for top trying to stop that … was actually a Nazi intelligence agent from there it goes on to become an oral than some of the biggest upset of downfalls and it’s had in political history ..

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