Francis' Compromised Archbishop Carballo
In 2007, Carballo, then minister general of the Friars Minor, and three regional OFM treasurers Lati, Beretta, Moriggi met with a broker called Rossi, releasing huge sums for five years for investment in the Roman luxury hotel Il Cantico, and in luxury hotel projects in Kenya.
In the process, about €20M vanished. After the scandal broke, Rossi committed suicide. The OFM's Vicar General, Father Bravi wanted to be a witness for the prosecution but died from heart issues shortly before giving testimony.
The three treasurers were acquitted because of a statute of limitations. Two were moved out, one left the priesthood. The official version was that Carballo “knew nothing” which is either a lie (he was present at the meetings) or a sign of a stunning incompetence which qualified him for being promoted to the Vatican.
In 2018, after Carballo was appointed to the Vatican, he created Cor Orans, a law forcing female contemplative monasteries into federations and allowing dioceses to seize assets from monasteries.
Since then, many monasteries around the globe were forced to close so that the Bolivian Cistercian Sister Maria Johanna Lauterbach spoke about an "extinction."
In December 2021, Carballo spoke at a Parisian symposium about how to use the buildings of closed monasteries, for instances, by converting them into luxury hotels.
But he was not always successful. In 2019 he ordered the closure of the Marradi Dominican nuns, Italy and requested the ownership documents but the nuns refused.
The anti-Catholic Golias-Editions.fr revealed last year that the Vatican had attempted to pressure nuns into voluntarily donating their assets to which the bishops had no legal access. In 2016, the Poor Clares of Lourdes learned from the local newspaper that their buildings were about to be sold off for the diocese. They teamed up with lawyers and retained control. According to CrisisMagazine.com many monasteries have folded under intense pressure couched as holy obedience.
Carballo also wanted the Franciscans of the Immaculate to hand over €30M in assets held by lay trustees. In vain.
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