A fake bishop managed to hoodwink senior cardinals gathered at the Vatican to di for the election of the next Pope. German-born Ralph Napierski was pictured with they arrived for the start of the College of Cardinals meeting which Britain’s most Catholic Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor was also attending.

Mr Napierski was seen shaking hands with unsuspecting Cardinal Sergio Sebiastia Vatican’s Pope Paul VI hall, with several other priests in his entourage who were al bogus. Alert Swiss Guards rumbled him because his vestments were wrong and be his purple sash was really a scarf and he was also wearing an odd-looking fedora h giveaways were the shortness of his black cassock and the crucifix around his nec

Before being spotted Mr Napierski had told reporters his name was Basilius and th of the non-existent Italian Orthodox Church. Initially there were reports in the Itali was part of a stunt by Australian TV but this proved false. Mr Napierski also said th had made “serious mistakes” by allowing priests accused of sex crimes to move to elsewhere and cover up scandals instead of dealing with them.

The imposter has a website in which he claims to be a bishop with a Catholic orga Corpus Dei. It shows him dressed in robes and he describes himself as a “slave an Paul”, although it is littered with spelling mistakes. On YouTube, Mr Napierski has videos in which he describes the benefits of the “ancient hidden spiritual practice website goes on to add that he is “fighting the heresy and false movements inside Church”. Vatican officials tried to play down the incident with spokesman Father F saying: “I’m not aware of this at all.

I was inside the hall and all those inside were real cardinals.” Meanwhile, there wa embarrassment for former Pope Benedict after an Italian TV station broadcast clai victims that he had ignored a report 10 years ago on a paedophile priest. Accordin show Le Iene, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was informed of sex abuse claim priest from Savona in northwest Italy called FatherNello Giraudo.A letter wassho programme dated September 2003 from the then Bishop Domenico Calcagno, wh the diocese in which Mr Giraudo practised, to Cardinal Ratzinger and it asked for “ how to deal with the allegations surrounding him.

In his letter Bishop Calcagno, who is now a cardinal at the Vatican, even suggested course of action would be to distance the under-suspicion priest from “having con adolescents” but it was claimed it went unanswered. Several of Mr Giraudo’s victi abuse they suffered at the hands of the priest, who was jailed for 12 months last y bargaining to a charge of sexually abusing a 17-year-old boy. The victims expresse fact Cardinal Ratzinger who was elected Pope less than two years later in 2005 did attention being drawn to the priest’s behaviour. It is not the first time the ex-Pope dragging his heels over abuse cases. Three years ago it was suggested he did the s also accused of paedophilia in his former hometown of Munich.


source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/popes-election-fake-cardinal-storms-vatican/

I hope we aint a tony anenih-like electionat this conclave