Family, Vatican clash over parliamentary investigation into ‘Vatican Girl’ case cruxnow.com
As the fortieth anniversary of the disappearance of the “Vatican Girl” approaches on June 22, new fault lines appear to be opening up in what had, not long ago, seemed a fairly friendly rapport among the Vatican, Italian authorities and the family of Emanuela Orlandi about how best to get to the truth.
Last week, the Italian Senate held a hearing about a proposal to open a parliamentary inquest into the case, as well as that of Mirella Gregorio, another teenage girl who disappeared in May 1983, one month before Orlandi.
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