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...Lubac, 86, who was suspended from teaching under Pope Pius XII because of his then radical views on such subjects as other religions and atheism but who emerged as an influential force at the Second Vatican Council. Italian Jesuit Carlo Maria Martini, a brilliant Bible scholar named Archbishop of Milan in 1980, is now, at age 55,papabile, considered to be a candidate for Pope some...
Shortly before Antonov was arrested, Pope John Paul moved to help clear up another Vatican-related mystery. After the death last June of Milan Banker Roberto Calvi, there were revelations about curious connections between Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano and the Istituto per le Opere de Religione (I.O.R.), better known as the Vatican bank. In a papal letter, John Paul last week indicated that the Holy See would be ending its dependence on investment and speculation for its funds and would rely instead on "the spontaneous contributions of the faithful and of other men of good will...
...insults, and with that, the Prime Minister's authority dissolved. Spadolini called for the resignation of the battling ministers. They balked; in the tradition of Italian coalition politics, Cabinet members serve as representatives of parties, not at the pleasure of the Prime Minister. In despair, Spadolini resigned. Lamented Milan's Corriere della Sera in a front-page editorial: "What we now have is not an ordinary government crisis. . . but the greatest...
...political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi, was not only a member of P2, but was believed to be the lodge's paymaser, allegedly funding right-wing Latin leaders who were friends of Gelli...
...strip Calvi of his powers, and the Bank of Italy appointed a commission to run Ambrosiano. That same day, Graziella Corrocher, 55, Calvi's longtime secretary-who, says Sindona, also kept the books for P2-plunged to her death from the fourth floor of the bank's Milan headquarters. She left behind an apparent suicide note saying, "May Calvi be double-cursed for the damage he has caused to the bank and its employees...