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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspects and their supposed motives. There was the late Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican Secretary of State, who Yallop claims had learned he would be replaced and who was upset that John Paul was allegedly considering loosening the church's prohibition on artificial birth control; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank, who is said to have been scheduled for immediate removal; Roberto Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, who faced ruin if his trickery with Vatican funds was discovered; Michele Sindona, the Sicilian banker who knew about the Vatican Bank's alleged laundering of Mafia money; Licio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican: Poison Gossip | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Moreover, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the institute's president, was a close business associate of Roberto Calvi's, Ambrosiano's president, who was found hanged from London's Blackfriars Bridge shortly before the bank failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moral Duty | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...Illinois-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, once regarded as a prime candidate for Cardinal, was passed over for promotion in a reorganization of the Curia office that runs the Vatican City administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul Completes His Team | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...Marcinkus, who also heads the Vatican bank, remains under a cloud because of the bank's dealings with scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano. John Paul also made a major change in removing himself as direct ruler of the Vatican City government in order to stress his role as Catholicism's spiritual leader. The new administrator: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, who is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul Completes His Team | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...omissions from the Pope's list were equally interesting. As chief administrator of the Vatican City, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, would have been an almost automatic choice. The Pope, however, is waiting for the results of a joint Vatican-Italian investigation of scandals involving the Institute for Religious Works (the Vatican bank), headed by the Chicago-born American. John Paul also passed over several leading U.S. archbishops. But with his urge to internationalize the college and his intention to keep the number of Cardinals eligible to vote for a Pope at 120, John Paul decided that several prospects must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Hats for Six Continents | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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