Hutton Gibson: The War Is Now, Jan. 2006
Gary Giuffre & The 'Siri Thesis'
We had hoped to drop the amazing subject of the split over the Siridiocy. Seventeen years of Giuffre research had proven fruitless. The man had failed his unnecessary project, unless he had other ends in view such as distraction and delay. Let's get on to something with better prospects of success.
A committee had been formed to concentrate on the major problem —
"How can we recover our Catholic Church? Under the impression that Gary Giuffre's projected book would contribute toward the objective, the committee offered help to expedite its publication. Gary agreed at least five times to send me his completed chapters to be edited for publication by Silvio Mattachione. But he agreed so that no one else — several already had them on compact disk — would send them. When, tired of the delay and with Giuffre's prior
knowledge, one of them sent me a copy, Gary accused him of the foulest treachery and betrayal.
Another major project of the committee to speed publication of Gary's book was translation of Italian works unavailable in English, including about half the writings of Cardinal Siri himself, which had been procured by Mr. Mattachione. Gary had always opposed full translation (all we needed was a few "sound bites'), but suddenly, decided Gary, we could not proceed without full translation, which (on Gary's past performance) would consume time by the year. He also declined to publish without 'the smoking gun." It was fine for the committee to push he said, but who would take care of Gary's orphaned children after his book was read in the Vatican? What a pity he had not considered this fifteen years earlier when he had accepted funding to prepare and publish his "evidence!"
About a week before last Christmas Gary wrote to Silvio and included a glowing tribute to Silvio's support. Less than two weeks later Gary was slandering Silvio overtime. What made the difference? Silvio's trip to Italy
without Gary. The overall reaction was so far out of proportion that we entertained great doubt of Gary's sanity. From some of his book we suspected paranoia. But investigation suggested that his problem was almost normal fear of discovery of guilt — he had deliberately deceived us, and the record was clear.
1 quote from Gary Giuffre's unpublished book,
The Plot Against the Pope (which came to me
early this year):
Reports of Siri's earlier papal election, acceptance, and forced surrender of office are strengthened by the 27 October 1958 Corriere della Sera. The Wan newspaper stated that on the previous evening, white clouds of smoke ascended from the Sistine Chapel stovepipe for several minutes, to thunderous cheers of "Bianco! Bianco' from the piazza below. When gray smoke followed a short time later, Prince Chigi telephoned the Secretary of the Conclave Msgr. Santoro, inside, to inquire as to what signal the conclave officials had intended. Santoro instructed Chigi to notify Vatican Radio that "no matter what, the smoke is white and positive". Yet no pope appeared on the papal balcony. Father Pellegrino, who had already announced repeatedly on Vatican Radio that a new pope had been elected, was told that he had incorrectly perceived black smoke to be white because of the numerous search fight: pointed at it. ...
But neither the
Associated Press nor
The Tablet reported the fact that confirmation of the election was received by
Vatican Radio independently of the smoke signals.
For Milan's
Corriere della Sera revealed that an official, inside the conclave, decided not to rely upon the stove, and secretly passed a note, via one of the revolving turntables (used for passing food to the Cardinals), outside to the Marshal of the Conclave, so that the latter would inform
Vatican Radio that the new Pope had indeed been elected:
"Last evening ... the smoke was white like that in the morning, but less dense, with black streaks at the end causing opinions to be suddenly and ardently divided. The radio however, calmly, declared that the smoke was white and invited the population to approach the piazza to receive the benediction of the new Pope. And this happened only because the Secretary of the Conclave, Monsignor Santoro, who was not completely confident in the stove had made a call through one of the turnstiles to Prince Chigi, and had surreptitiously passed him a letter in which he told him to alert the radio that, no matter what the smoke was white and positive." Silvio Negro, "Minoranze tenaci si oppongono alb candidature pi favorite", Corriere della Sera, 28 October 1958, Milan, page 1.
Note that word,
surreptitiously. Doesn't it sound suspicious' It should — it was not in Silvio Negro's original article. Even more suspiciously, Msgr. Santoro
was not in the 1958 Conclave! So how did he sneak a letter out? Giuffre placed him and his letter inside surreptitiously by proxy.
He conveniently omitted a few paragraphs from Silvio Negro's news story of October 27, 1958. The Conclave had not finished, and no one had yet heard much about the previous day's white smoke. Things did not seem to add up. So Silvio Mattachione dug out the original story and discovered the missing words. This is what Guiffre had feared, and tried to forestall by most cruel and conscienceless destruction of Silvio Mattachione who had supported him far beyond the call of duty for eight years.
On to the proper translation:
It might be of comfort to Father Pellegrino to learn that what happened yesterday had already occurred in 1939: the "Fumata" (smoke) that was supposed to be black appeared initially very white, thick, almost chalky, and streaked with black shadings in the end.
That night, after the positive "Fumata" (smoke) that followed the first ballot and, therefore, ahead of time — a case which might take place even this time (1958) both in the morning and in the afternoon — the "Fumata" (smoke) was white as that of the morning, but not as thick, complete with black streaks m the end, and hence the opinions were presently heatedly divided. The radio, however, very composed, declared the "Fumata" (smoke) to have been white, and invited the population to go to the square to be blessed by the new Pope. And that took place only because the secretary of the Conclave, then Monsignor Santoro, utterly distrustful of the stove, had had Prince Chigi summoned to one of the wheels (turnstiles), and handed him a letter in which he told him to advise the radio that, in any case, the "Fumata" (smoke) would have been white and positive (end of translation).
As subheading for his last four paragraphs Silvio Negro had written:
"The Case of 1939". Here is no possible chance of error; this is deliberate perversion of the facts to serve Gary Giuffre's hypothesis. He never corrected this point though he had known the facts for at least five years.
1 have in hand copies of correspondence between Brian P. Champlin (
>Bpchamplin@aol.com) and Gary Giuffre (
gguiffre@phoenix,net) dated Friday 16 July 1999 18:05:33:
Dear Gary,
Unfortunately I am unable to report that Mgr. Pietro Santoro was the Secretary of the 1958 Conclave. That office was filled by Albertus Di Jorio... On page 769 of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis for 1958, after the election of Cardinal Masella as Camerlengo is noted, it is stated: ... "The same Fathers elected the most excellent Lord Albert di Jorio as Secretary of the Conclave." (end of quotation)
Then followed a complete list of the 1958 Conclavist clergy, demonstrating that no Santoro, neither Pietro nor Vincenzo,
the Secretary of the 1939 Conclave (who probably died in 1943) had graced the 1958 Conclave with his presence.
Guffre replied: "Dear Brian: Just saw your e-mail above at 6 P.M. Friday. ... just wanted you to know that I did not lose your letter and will read it carefully later. Thanks for all your detective work on Msgr. Santoro — what a mystery!"
What a hypocrite!
Among the relevant photocopies in my possession are page 877,
Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 1958, certifying the election of Angelo Joseph Roncalli, signed by Conclave Secretary A. Di Jorio, and page 122,
Acta Apostolicaae Sedis, 1939, certifying the election of Eugenius Pacelli, signed by Conclave Secretary
Vincentius Santoro. These are freely available to all researchers and investigators. Can we believe them beyond the ken or capacity of such a demon researcher and selective citationist as Gary Giuffre? On the contrary, 1 believe him capable of anything. And
slanting it!
Is it any wonder that Gary Giuffre panicked? The only way to continue to hide his own deliberate incompetence was to control the investigation.
Now it might slip out of his hands! The quickest, surest method to keep control — to save his own hide — was to destroy the credibility of all those whom he considered threats to his control. Never mind that he had impeded genuine progress for fifteen years; he would greatly discredit and impede any of our current or future plans to
recover our Catholic Church. He would complain that we had accomplished nothing, while restraining us by promises of early results, after the proven fashion of Marcel Lefebvre.
Two ladies have chided me for uncharitableness toward Mr. Giuffre. One even subsequently went out of her way to slander Silvio Mattachione, of whom she knows nothing except by way of reports from Gary Giuffre that inexhaustible wen of verbal venom, which, he seems to think, covers a plenitude of fraud. Gary holds no animus against me, he says, for the things he has said and done against me and mine. But I can't afford silence. Charity does not apply. The sooner that all traditional Catholics realize that Gary is a full-time menace to all our goals, the better.
I must confess that I have been remiss in failing to deal earlier with this problem. Perhaps I may yet alter our course toward effectiveness, Maybe songs or slogans will help. One comes immediately to mind:
Belly up in Befiville.
Malachi Martin told Gary Giuffre conflicting stories and
was targeted as the lowest type prevaricator. Father Khoat
told Gary Giuffre conflicting.stories and became a chief
witness to Siri's papacy.
Edward Noyes Westcott, a banker who died in 1898, left us a posthumous novel,
David Harum. David, a paragon of Yankee ingenuity and aphorisms, was famous for adherence to the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as they would do unto you,
but do it first"
.
As you may have read, or deduced, David was an extremely successful businessman, and legal to the core.
Gary Giuffre apparently hoped to provide posthumous proof of his Siridiocy, to solve all the Church's problems without personal or financial risk.
As we have shown, Gary was an extremely selective investigator who thought to cover the fact that he covered facts. He tried to do to us what he expected we would do to him when the facts came to light. He surely
did it first. He thus aroused suspicion, which provoked closer examination of his illegal inaction — rotten to the core!
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, article
Heresy, Vol. VII, p. 259c:
"The first law of life ... is self-preservation. Neglect of self-preservation leads to ruin and destruction. But the life of a religious society, the tissue that binds its members into one body and animates them with one soul, is the symbol of faith, the creed or confession adhered to as a condition sine qua non of membership. To undo the creed is to undo the Church. The integrity of the rule of faith is more essential to the cohesion of a religious society than the strict practice of its moral precepts. For faith supplies the means of mending delinquencies as one of its ordinary functions, whereas the loss of faith, cutting at the root of spiritual fife, is usually fatal to the soul.... The jealousy with which the Church guards and defends her deposit of faith is therefore identical with the instinctive duty of self-preservation and the desire to live.... This instinct... being natural... is universal.... In the Catholic Church this natural law has received the sanction of Divine promulgation.... Freedom of thought extending to the essential beliefs of a Church is in itself a contradiction; for, by accepting membership, the members accept the essential beliefs and renounce their freedom of thought so far as these are concerned."
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