The Con Man Padre Pio Called "My Policeman"

In 1931, every copy of a 431-page book about scandal inside the Church went into a room in the Vatican and never came out. The man who put it together was a con man from Turin. And the friar he was fighting for never asked for any of it. This is the true story of Emanuele Brunatto: the sinner who walked into a confessional in 1920, came out a different man, and spent the rest of his life defending the friar who called him "my policeman." CHAPTERS 0:00 1931: a stack of books vanishes inside the Vatican 0:36 The con man from Turin 2:40 The con man becomes a detective 4:32 The 431-page dossier 5:55 The book with a deadline 8:19 Two pairs of gloves 9:38 Loyal, or disobedient? SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims) "Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake." (Matthew 5:11) SOURCES Heralds of the Gospel, on Emanuele Brunatto Infovaticana (2018), on Brunatto and Padre Pio Italian biography of Emanuele Brunatto (devozioni.altervista.org) EWTN, "Highlights of Padre Pio's Life" Inside the Vatican (2018) Messenger of Saint Anthony Further reading: Francesco Castelli, "Padre Pio Under Investigation" Where the record rests on tradition, the story says so ("the story goes," "they say"). Nobody can prove Brunatto's book is what freed Padre Pio in 1933, and this story doesn't claim it. And that's their Catholic story. If this story moved you, share it with someone who loves Padre Pio. ▶ Subscribe for more true Catholic stories:    / @theircatholicstory   ▶ Joe's daily show, A Catholic Take:    / @josephmcclane   ▶ joemcclane.com CREDITS Music: "Never Dying" and "Uprising" by Scott Buckley, released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Images: Wikimedia Commons, public domain unless noted. CC-licensed: Interiors of Vatican Secret Archives (Collective, CC BY 3.0); Cathedra Petri (Dnalor 01, CC BY-SA 3.0); Vatican City aerial (lafiguradelpadre Congreso, CC BY 2.0); Padre Pio's cell (Mazaki, CC BY-SA 4.0); Gauntlet gloves, AM 2013.20.1.10-3 (CC BY 4.0); Bouquet of red roses (Papori Bora, CC BY-SA 4.0); 1930s Remington (Mariochs, CC BY-SA 4.0); Padre Pio (Roberto Dughetti, CC BY-SA 3.0); U Thant, 1963 (Jack de Nijs / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL); Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (giovanni zagaria, CC BY-SA 3.0); Via Nazionale, Rome (Giorgio Galeotti, CC BY 4.0); Pope John Paul II (Beyond Forgetting, CC BY 2.0); Cardinal Wojtyła (Jornal O Bom Católico, CC BY 2.0). #TheirCatholicStory #PadrePio #CatholicHistory