Masonic Plots
What Masonic commandos do when on leave
We didn’t mean to get back to the Catholic Church quite so soon, but sometimes little things happen that remind “Upper Italy” that it is present and operating in a virtual theocracy, that this country cannot quite get over how Catholic it is supposed to be.
We mentioned sometime back – (here) – that pedophile priests are predictably not allowed to be much of an issue in Italy. But very likely because of the huge and newsworthy settlement by which the Archdiocese of Los Angeles bought its way out of 500 sexual abuse cases for around $660 million, the issue did recently surface in Italian papers and some attention was given to a local instance.
This involved a well-known priest who runs a very large operation for drying out young people with drug problems called “Incontro,” which means “Encounter.” His name is Pierino Gelmini. It is rather typical that the coverage did not mention how many youths were involved, their ages, their gender or even the type of sexual abuse to which they were supposed to have been subjected. Linguistic clues in the Italian language suggest though that they were both fairly numerous and effectively males.
Don Gelmini responded to the fact that the story had been allowed to reach the press with outrage. The less than courageous Minister of Justice, Mr. Clemente Mastella publicly avowed as how he would be especially vigilant in assuring that aspects “of an anticlerical character” would not be allowed to influence the handling of the case – which was immediately throttled in its crib. At the moment, Gelmini is no longer under investigation. Instead, another investigation has been launched to determine who leaked the news.
This is all pretty much par for the course, whatever you may think of it, but then Don Gelmini decided it was pay-back time and gave an interview to Italy’s leading daily, the “Corriere della Sera,” in which he attributed the episode to “a worldwide lobby, how shall I say this, Hebrew-radical chic, which beginning with the American Church aims at weakening the entire Catholic Church everywhere…”
Politically and journalistically speaking, you could have heard a pin drop. The lion-hearted Minister of Justice immediately left for the beach and had his press office release a note in which he declared that the newspapers had twisted his words and that he would not interfere in the case after all – just as well, since it had in the meantime been closed.
Don Gelmini too, though forced to confirm his statement, found that he had mispoken. He hadn’t really meant to speak about “Hebrews,” for whom he had “only the greatest respect.” On thinking it over, what he had really meant to say was that these vile accusations were actually the work of a “Masonic-radical chic lobby”...
Oh well then, that’s OK. It’s alright in Italy to blame anything on the Masons. In many cases it is illegal to even be one, at least if you want a job in the public sector or are involved in the wrong one of some of the many things that require a government license.
The problem for Freemasons in Italy is that the Church, the Right and the Left all hate them, though for somewhat different reasons. An intellectually pretentious magazine here called “il Diario” recently caused no stir whatever by (seriously) accusing a political opponent of being a Mason on the basis of recurring groups of “3”s in the numbers of both his direct telephone line and his cell-phone. These, it explained, are numbers much loved by the Masonry.
At any rate and to get back to the subject at hand, as happens with pin-drop moments, after Don Gemini’s clarification the normal Italian background noise then resumed its previous pitch and no-one has seemed to have much more to say about the matter. It has been determined that, since the numerous witnesses against the Priest had by definition drug problems, the evidence they offered – even if corroborated by others – could not be considered reliable.
Oh, for the Masons among our readers at a loss for how to pass the time while waiting to take over the world, the tattoo above, and others equally exciting, can be found on a specialized Internet site called “Masonic Ink” – that’s (here) – registration and a secret handshake required.