[…] launched his attempted 1923 putsch. (64) Nevertheless, discussions with the Generals and with the Goerdeler group were resumed at the end of 1939, and continued, sometimes with Vatican mediation, sometimes in neutral cities, into the early spring of 1940.(65) The peace terms broadly acceptable to the British did not alter significantly throughout this period. […]
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
[…] and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, Col. Thourot Pichel, said the foundations of Christianity were “about ready to face destruction” from the “world menace […]
[…] because the Soviet state was afraid of the Pope’s influence in Poland. But there was another drama rumbling away parallel to the Solidarity story: the whole P2/Calvi/Ambrosiano/Gelli/ Vatican finances mess was just coming to the surface at the same time. Again, to her credit, Sterling doesn’t duck this entirely. On p. 142, for example, […]
[…] town in Middle America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history […]
[…] the head when the United States swung round to the Soviet view. The scheme, or a similar one, continued a ghostly, post-war existence for a while. The Vatican supported it. There was an active branch of Intermarium in Rome and senior Vatican priests and bishops became officers of the organisation. Intermarium was one of […]
[…] repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia as a predominantly Muslim nation, its threat was far greater than “Christian” Croatia’ (emphasis added). Now the author is here discussing a theory […]
[…] hadn’t heard from the firm about its decision on New Unhappy Lords. 25 Joseph Serpico, a devout Catholic and former Marine, headed OMNI, which published books denouncing Vatican II (such as The Plot Against the Church) and tracts such as a pamphlet denouncing British Israel. Chesterton raised funds in England to finance OMNI’s edition […]
[…] the Soviet aggressiveness and ideology”. It was later admitted that Heim had been in correspondence with Edward Leigh, and that Francis Holihan had sent him and other Vatican envoys around the world material on Mgr Bruce Kent. (Guardian 3rd May 1983) The action backfired though, as Cardinal Hume disliked the ‘smear’ tactics and was […]
[…] neo-cons. The world-wide Anglican Church, which was strongly against the Iraq war, has long portrayed itself as a global friend of other religions. The similarly anti-Iraq war Vatican – its loathing for the US neo-cons being legendary – is: a) supporting France and Germany’s bid to build an EU defence force outside of NATO; […]
