Pope defends predecessor after remarks by brother of 15-year-old girl who went missing in Rome in 1983
Pope Francis has denounced “offensive and unfounded insinuations” that his predecessor John Paul II went out at night looking for underage girls.
The case into Emanuela’s disappearance, which over the past four decades has triggered several theories but yielded no concrete answers, wasDuring questioning with Vatican prosecutors last week, Orlandi shared an audio tape containing an alleged conversation between a journalist and the boss of a Rome criminal organisation suspected of being embroiled in Emanuela’s disappearance.
Francis’s stern rebuke on Sunday drew applause from his audience: “Confident of interpreting the sentiment of all the faithful of the entire world, I direct a grateful thought to the memory of St John Paul II, who in these days is the object of offensive and unfounded insinuations,” the pontiff said.
The reopened investigation followed the release on Netflix of Vatican Girl, a documentary exploring the theories surrounding the case.
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