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Dirty Tricks Behind the Grand Master’s Coffin?

The death of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, is clouded in mysteries, writes MarcoTosatti.com (May 5).

In the late morning of April 29, when Dalla Torre was dying in the ARS Medica clinic in Rome, the Order’s capitulars received an email with three attachments:

1. A letter by the Grand Commander asking to pray for Dalla Torre.

2. The convocation of an Extraordinary November General Chapter of the Order for the approval of the controversial “reform,” signed on that day by Dalla Torre.

3. A letter by Grand Chancellor Boeselager informing that the draft "constitutional reform" was sent to the Vatican.

Tosatti asks how Dalla Torre was able to sign the convocation while dying and thus putting his successor under constraint, all the more that the draft of the “reform” was not even seen by the other professed knights.

For Tosatti this reeks of palace intrigue. He adds that the exact hour of Dalla Torre’s death was never indicated as is customary, but only a generic “after midnight.”

In the background of this, Tosatti sees a fight between the professed knights who want to keep the Order as a religious institution, and the arrogant German axis which wants to turn the Order into a secularist NGO.

Now, the Germans could use Dalla Torre’s death as a bargaining chip to go through with their “reform” because Dalla Torre “has wanted it so much.”

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Hugh N. Cry
It always starts with the Germans. Why is that? Think Luther, Marx, Vatican II... the Rhine definitely flows into the Tiber. This is not a race-provocative statement.
Ultraviolet
"and the arrogant German axis which wants to turn the Order into a secularist NGO." anyone else sick of nearlly all the German clergy by now?
joachimw1960
What is the meaning of this remark, please?
Ultraviolet
It is a rhetorical question referencing the quoted excerpt of the article.