Pope Francis assists in notorious Italy murder investigation

Pope Francis is breaking decades of Vatican silence to help Italy shed light on one of its most notorious crimes: the 1970’s murder of former premier Aldo Moro, the Corriere della Sera daily said Saturday. Francis has given permission for Archbishop Antonio Mennini to be interviewed by a parliamentary commission, 37 years after Moro was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, a leftist Italian militant group. Mennini is reported to have heard Moro’s final confession and served as a go-between between the militants and Pope Paul VI, who is believed to have attempted to buy the former prime minister’s release.

Mennini managed to reach Aldo Moro in the Red Brigades’ den and we did not find out about it.

Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy from 1985 to 1992, confessed before he died

The Red Brigades abducted the Christian Democrat on March 16, 1978, killing his five bodyguards. Paul VI made a personal appeal to the kidnappers on April 23, saying “I pray to you on my knees, liberate Aldo Moro,” but the latter was found dead in the boot of a car in a Rome backstreet after two months in captivity. The Holy See’s ambassador to Britain, Mennini has been shielded from prior investigations due to diplomatic immunity, but on Monday will go before the new commission investigating the murder, Corriere della Sera said.

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