This is a little disorganized, but I promise if you start reading about these topics, it starts connecting some crumbs.
If you're sick of the same Hilary Step video, shilling and Flat Earth crap that's going on. I really believe it's worth the dig, and would like some help.
Pope John Paul II / Banks / Pedophilia / AIDS / Nazis / Masons
POPE JOHN PAUL II
•Is the Pope in the picture Q posted that has the upside-down cross on the back of his chair
(Needs confirmation, but I am nearly certain)
•His predecessor (Pope John Paul I) died under suspicious circumstances after just 33 days of being Pope
•Was the 3rd longest reigning Pope in History!
(from 1978 to 2005)
•His successor was the Nazi Pope
•Had multiple assassination attempts on him
•Ian Paisley (to him) in 1988 - "I denounce you as the ANTICHRIST!"
•It is believed a vial of his blood was once stolen for a "Satanic Rite"
BANCO AMBROSIANO
•Pope John Paul II was alleged to have links with Banco Ambrosiano, an Italian bank that collapsed in 1982. At the centre of the bank's failure was its chairman, Roberto Calvi, and his membership in the illegal Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due (aka P2).
•The death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 is rumoured to be linked to the Ambrosiano scandal.
•On 5 June 1982, two weeks before the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Calvi had written a letter of warning to Pope John Paul II, stating that such a forthcoming event would "provoke a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions in which the Church will suffer the gravest damage". On 18 June 1982 Calvi's body was found hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge in the financial district of London. Calvi's clothing was stuffed with bricks, and contained cash valued at US$14,000, in three different currencies
PEDOPHILIA AND COVER-UP
•John Paul II was the Pope during the huge priest pedophilia scandals and did basically nothing about it. IIRC, he actually helped cover it up.
•In 2004 John Paul II recalled Bernard Francis Law to be Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. Law had previously resigned as archbishop of Boston in 2002 in response to the Catholic Church sexual abuse cases after Church documents were revealed that suggested he had covered up sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese.
•John Paul II was a firm supporter of the Legion of Christ, and in 1998 discontinued investigations into sexual misconduct by its leader Marcial Maciel
OPUS DEI
•John Paul II was criticised for his support of the Opus Dei prelature and the 2002 canonisation of its founder, Josemaría Escrivá, whom he called 'the saint of ordinary life.'
•Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized from many quarters, prompting journalists to describe Opus Dei as "the most controversial force in the Catholic Church" and founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá as a "polarizing" figure.
•It is claimed by some that founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá supported Hitler.
AIDS
•John Paul's position against artificial birth control, including the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, was harshly criticised by doctors and AIDS activists, who said that it led to countless deaths and millions of AIDS orphans.
VATICAN BANK
•"Institute for the Works of Religion" commonly known as the Vatican Bank, is a private bank situated inside Vatican City
•When the Holy See, whose tax-exempt status on income from Italian investments was revoked in 1968, decided to diversify its holdings, it employed as financial adviser Michele Sindona. Once among the country's most powerful businessmen, subsequent investigations into his business affairs brought to light questionable associations with the Mafia as well as the secret P2, a bogus "Masonic" lodge that the Italian Parliament branded as a subversive organization.
•In 1982, a political and financial scandal connected with the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano involved the head of IOR from 1971 to 1989, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus.
In 1987, an Italian court issued a warrant against Marcinkus, whom they accused of being an accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy. Marcinkus evaded arrest by staying inside Vatican City until the warrant was dismissed in 1991.
•Tony Abse, writing in The Weekly Worker, has said that the CIA used the Institute for the Works of Religion to funnel funds.