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For almost forty years, Honduran ambassador Alejandro Valladares was among the closest friends of the man who would become Pope Francis' ""vice pope,"" Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. In this important work, Valladares' widowed spouse reveals the troubling web of financial and moral corruption that she uncovered after their family's life savings disappeared in a bogus investment scheme recommended by Maradiaga, one that led ultimately to the highest reaches of the Vatican, and to Pope Francis himself. In this important work, Martha Alegría Reichmann de Valladares reveals the naked impunity and abuses committed by Maradiaga under the protection of the pope himself, and cries out for justice. No concerned Catholic can ignore her testimony.

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"""Alegría's testimony regarding Cardinal Maradiaga's involvement of their family in a fraudulent financial scheme, as well as his defense and cover-ups of his auxiliary bishop is deeply shocking. More disturbing is her revelation that Francis continues to protect Maradiaga despite all the misdeeds for which Maradiaga has made himself personally responsible."" -- From the foreword by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States ""This book is dynamite! The compelling testimony of Martha Alegria Reichmann -- a widow betrayed by a powerful cardinal she had once considered a close friend -- has the power to break down the wall of silence that protects Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, and expose the corruption that reaches to the very top of the Vatican."" -- Philip Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, author of Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading his Flock ""We have here just one case study of the vast corruption in the Church that flourishes under Pope Francis, and of the Pope's hypocrisy in promoting it. As the author remarks: 'One gets the impression that the devil is gradually taking over the institutions of the Church.'"" -- H.J.A. Sire, author of The Dictator Pope"

Alegria's testimony regarding Cardinal Maradiaga's involvement of their family in a fraudulent financial scheme, as well as his defense and cover-ups of his auxiliary bishop is deeply shocking. More disturbing is her revelation that Francis continues to protect Maradiaga despite all the misdeeds for which Maradiaga has made himself personally responsible. -- From the foreword by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States This book is dynamite! The compelling testimony of Martha Alegria Reichmann -- a widow betrayed by a powerful cardinal she had once considered a close friend -- has the power to break down the wall of silence that protects Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, and expose the corruption that reaches to the very top of the Vatican. -- Philip Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, author of Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading his Flock We have here just one case study of the vast corruption in the Church that flourishes under Pope Francis, and of the Pope's hypocrisy in promoting it. As the author remarks: 'One gets the impression that the devil is gradually taking over the institutions of the Church.' -- H.J.A. Sire, author of The Dictator Pope

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