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That passport was forged, but the body was soon identified as 62-year-old Roberto Calvi, president of the Milan-based Banco Ambrosiano, one of Italy’s largest private banks, with ties so close to the Vatican that Calvi had the unofficial title of “God’s banker.” He had gone missing from Italy the previous week. So how did he turn up dead under a bridge in the British capital?
Through his role, Calvi forged close ties with Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the Chicago-born chairman of the Vatican’s Institute for Religious Works , which holds the bank accounts of priests, bishops, cardinals and even the Pope, and was a major, though secretive, shareholder of Banco Ambrosiano. Marcinkus was seen as a close confidant to Pope Paul VI, whom he helped save from a knife attack in the Philippines in 1970.
Does Pope Francis know ?