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Just as Americans grew up with the names of Oswald, Ruby, Zapruder and Warren in connection to the Kennedy assassination, a whole generation of Italians have come of age haunted by the Orlandi mystery and its cluster of personalities.
If the question is simply whether John Paul II ever went out from the Vatican in secret fashion in the company of fellow Polish clergy, the answer is a resounding “yes.”
“The investigations go forward, with the best of intentions … The idea of the Holy See is precisely that of arriving at clarity,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.