Pope helps shed light on notorious Italy murder

[WorldNews]

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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. Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy from 1985 to 1992, confessed before he died that "Mennini managed to reach Aldo Moro in the Red Brigades' den and we did not find out about it," the Italian daily said.

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