Pope Francis using respected charity foundation to bail out corrupt medical institute

Last summer, Pope Francis asked the U.S. based Papal Foundation to direct $25 million to the Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata (IDI), a dermatological hospital in Rome that has been plagued with corruption and financial scandal for years. Founded in 1990, the Papal Foundation has a noble record of assisting popes in helping the poor in under-developed countries. Therefore, the $25-million grant requested by Francis has lay members of the Foundation up in arms, seeing that the money is going to the corruption-plagued, Church-owned dermatological institute accused of money laundering and which has liabilities of over $1 billion USD – an amount larger than the national debt of many nations.

A 2016 report by ANSA stated that "Finance police discovered IDI was 845 million euros in the red and 450 million euros in tax evasion while 82 million euros had been diverted and six million euros in public funds embezzled." The question is how was €86 million diverted and embezzled? Given the Vatican's recent history of repeatedly featuring population control experts as keynote speakers at its conferences, it is conceivable that some of this money could have gone to funding antilife groups, since corrupt hospitals themselves are involved with antilife, i.e. euthanasia and abortion. A Reuters article which made international headlines in June 2015 reported that Vatican Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi was suspected of diverting 30 million euros destined for a Church-owned children’s hospital to the Church-owned dermatological hospital. Why was money taken from a children's hospital? Is Rome stealing from the poor? For the full story, go toLifeSiteNews

David Martin——Bio and Archives

David Martin is the former moderator for St. Michaels Radio which is the one radio program of our time specializing in Catholic prophecy. He has also authored numerous articles on the Church and the Papacy which have appeared on various blogs and websites.

David presently resides in Los Angeles, California where for thirty years he has coordinated a Catholic ministry. He is a daily communicant in his parish church and strongly supports Benedict XVI’s aspiration to see the Traditional Latin Mass returned to every Catholic parish of the world.