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April 28, 2021
from
LifeSiteNews Website
Martha Alegría Reichmann de Valladares,
Cardinal Óscar Maradiaga,
and her
late husband, Alejandro.
The widow of a
former Vatican ambassador
accuses Pope
Francis of covering-up for
Cardinal Óscar
Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga....
The widow of the former dean of the Vatican diplomatic corps is
revealing the involvement of Pope Francis in the cover-up of his top
cardinal,
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga,
in a new book now available from
Faithful Insight Books, a
publishing imprint of LifeSiteNews.
"Sacred
Betrayals - A Widow Raises Her Voice Against the Corruption of the
Francis Papacy" reveals evidence that Cardinal
Mardiaga covered up the sexual abuse and misconduct of his
auxiliary bishop,
Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, and
diverted millions of dollars of Church money to fraudulent
investment schemes that have since disappeared.
The investments included
the life savings of Honduras' ambassador to the Holy See,
Alejandro Valladares and his wife, Martha Alegría Reichmann.
Reichmann and her husband hosted Cardinal Maradiaga in their home
for decades, until they fell afoul of Maradiaga after protesting
against the scandalous behavior of his auxiliary bishop, Juan José
Pineda, who was ultimately accused of sexual predation against
seminarians and disappeared from Honduras after resigning his
office.
When the Valladares family's life savings disappeared in a
fraudulent investment scheme promoted to them by Maradiaga, Alegría
Reichmann took her case to the height of the Vatican hierarchy and
even to Pope
Francis
himself, but found that no one was willing to correct the
wayward Maradiaga, even after the financial and sexual scandals were
exposed in the international media.
Martha Alegria Reichmann
congratulates Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga Rodriguez
upon his elevation to cardinal.
(photo: Courtesy of Martha Alegria Reichmann)
Source
Sacred Betrayals recounts Alegría Reichmann's struggle to
find justice for her family, and to alert the Catholic Church to the
corruption of Pope Francis' most influential and powerful cardinal.
Philip Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, writes:
"This book is
dynamite! The compelling testimony of Martha Alegria Reichmann -
a widow betrayed by a powerful cardinal she had once considered
a close friend - has the power to break down the wall of silence
that protects Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, and expose the
corruption that reaches to the very top of the Vatican."
In addition to Pope
Francis and Cardinal Maradiaga, Sacred Betrayals recounts the
involvement of other high curial officials, including Cardinal
Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who seemed
helpless to proceed against Maradiaga because of Francis'
protection.
"Alegría's testimony
regarding Cardinal Maradiaga's involvement of their family in a
fraudulent financial scheme, as well as his defense and
cover-ups of his auxiliary bishop is deeply shocking.
More disturbing is
her revelation that Francis continues to protect Maradiaga
despite all the misdeeds for which Maradiaga has made himself
personally responsible," writes the former Apostolic Nuncio to
the United States, Carlo Maria Viganò, in his foreword to
the book.
Alegría Reichmann's
accusations come in the wake of exploding financial and moral
scandals in the Vatican, as cardinals are removed from their
positions following accusations of financial malfeasance.
While others have fallen,
Cardinal Maradiaga continues to be defended by Pope Francis, who has
refused to believe repeated reports of misconduct by the prelate.
"The pope is
determined to support and cover up Maradiaga knowing of his
corruption and all he is accused of, and that he himself has
verified through the investigation made by his friend Pedro
Casaretto," writes Alegría Reichmann.
She adds that she
believes that,
"more and more
scandals will be exposed because time is like the sea: the sea
brings everything back to shore, from bottles to corpses."
Sacred Betrayals
was formerly only available in Honduras in Spanish, and the new
publication has been translated into English and adapted for a
global audience by Faithful Insight Books, a publishing
imprint of LifeSiteNews.
Related info in Spanish
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