The pedophile ring warning will pile pressure on the new Pope Leo XIV – the first U.S. pontiff.
We have already revealed how victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests have expressed their “concern” with the newly elected Pope.
Our report told how a group dedicated to the abused accused the new pontiff of “looking the other way” when it came to religious leaders in his Chicago-home churches.
Despite the remains found at the Vatican embassy being identified as those of an adult male, there are still fears missing teens Mirella Gregori and Emanuela Orlandi were victims of church child abusers.
During a visit to Emanuela Orlandi’s family home, the late Pope John Paul II told her relatives he believed her kidnap to be a case of international terrorism – sparking theories he was covering up a Vatican pedophile ring.
Now dead Gabriele Amorth – formerly chief exorcist for the Vatican – told an Italian newspaper he believed Emanuela was a victim of a Vatican-connected circle that organized orgies at which young girls were abused.
The latest theories about the skeleton in the Vatican’s closet heaps scandal on the Catholic church, still reeling from a string of sex scandals. They have included a 900-page grand jury report that detailed how hundreds of trusted priests had raped, beaten and abused vulnerable children in Pennsylvania alone.
It said: “The men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all.”
The report caused catastrophic fallout for the Catholic church across the US, with at least 13 states launching investigations of their own into the conduct of their priests, prompting resignations and congregations deserting pews.
