The Pell haters are all at See

As the author of a book on Vatican corruption, I know there are almost no depths to which the progressive Catholic hierarchy will not sink to damage its political enemies. And Cardinal George Pell is the most repellent person imaginable to the so-called 'lavender mafia' of powerful left-wing gay bishops in Rome.

Pell is the feisty, plain-spoken son of a heavyweight boxer; he has a track record of financial prudence and he championed the cause of abuse victims long before Rome took the problem seriously. In short, he's everything the progressive Left and the corrupt Roman curia hate.

And boy, did he make enemies when Pope Francis appointed him to reform the Vatican Bank, one of the most cataclysmically mismanaged financial institutions in the world.

Pell was brought in because he almost single-handedly rescued the Sydney and Melbourne dioceses from bankruptcy, but, as he began to unravel the multi-billion dollar corruption and venality in Rome, he was abruptly – conveniently, you might say – summoned back to Australia to defend himself against sex abuse charges.

The moment he left the Vatican, his bank reforms stalled, and the sinister forces controlling the Catholic church seized the reins again.

The Vatican/homosexual connection has long been the subject of discussion, not least in the also controversial, possibly scurrilous but eminently readable book by the Frenchman Frederic Martel, In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality and Hypocrisy (2019). Equally scathing but from a more orthodox Catholic position is Taylor Marshall's Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within (2019), endorsed by the hugely respected Bishop Athanasius Schneider in a foreword to the book.

Yes indeed, George Pell had multiple enemies in Rome. Perhaps he still does. But who were involved at the Australian end? Rod Dreher has also noted:

When I was in Australia … I found myself in a conversation one evening with someone about all this. (I had a lot of Pell conversations, as you might imagine.) I shared with my interlocutor my suspicion that Pell was set up to take him off the Vatican Bank case. The man across the table said, "That's interesting. You may not know it, but the 'Ndrangheta is quite well established in Australia, especially in Victoria. That's where the cardinal was charged."

The 'Ndrangheta is the Calabrian mafia, and yes, they are well established in Australia. They control organized crime on Australia's East Coast, and are said to have infiltrated every part of the Australian establishment. With that in mind, here's an interesting bit of news, from the Irish Times, Nov. 16, 2013:

Senior Calabrian Mafia investigator Nicola Gratteri, whose investigative zeal has forced him to live with police protection since 1989, has said the pope's plans to reform Vatican structures, including the Vatican bank, the IOR, could prove a problem for the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful Mafia.

We know all about the close connections between the Australian mafia(s) and Australian police forces through the Woodward Royal Commission, the Colin Winchester affair, Whitlam Government minister Al Grassby and the killings of Donald Mackay and John Newman. (For a graphic depiction of the history of the Calabrian mafia in Australia, see Clive Small and Tom Gilling, Evil Life: The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia, 2016).

As a footnote on Al Grassby, the "father of multiculturalism" in Australia, Keith Moor noted in 2005 after Grassby's death:

The detective who arrested controversial federal MP Al Grassby 18 years ago claims the National Crime Authority bowed to political pressure not to fully investigate his mafia links.

Retired NCA senior investigator Bruce Provost said he had no doubt the Whitlam Labor government minister was paid to commit crimes and do favours for the Calabrian mafia.

Speaking publicly for the first time about the NCA's inquiry, Mr Provost said Mr Grassby was firmly in the mafia's pocket.

He said there was more than enough intelligence on Mr Grassby to warrant a full investigation, but he was held back by the NCA.

So yes, the Calabrian mafia does exist in Australia. My wordy, yes. And George Pell was indeed the mafia's number one Vatican enemy in Rome. Always the question "who benefits from x" should be front and centre.

It is not just a potential mafia connection, though.

We know from past history the close ties between VicPol and the freemasons on the one hand, and the Catholics on the other. The awful protection given by VicPol officers and magistrates back in the day to the paedophile Monsignor John Day was exposed in all its glory by Peter Hoysted (aka Jack the Insider) and Denis Ryan in their book Unholy Trinity.

Only recently LifeSite News reported on the masonic connection with VicPol and the possible involvement of one Luke Cornelius, the same copper who routinely defends thuggery and insults Victorians who dare to protest against the Covid lockdowns ("boofheads"; "batshit crazy"; "dogs returning to their vomit").