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Institute for Works of Religion

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Nov 28, 2025
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Could "650 planes of gold" be a mistranslation, coded phrase, or part of a viral marketing campaign?

The phrase "650 planes of gold" appears in an online claim attributed to Jan Halper-Hayes saying "It took 650 planes to remove our gold from the Vatican bank," but that source is a single small site r...

Feb 2, 2026

What documented scandals and reforms surround the Vatican Bank from the 1970s to today?

or IOR, has been linked repeatedly since the 1970s to money‑laundering allegations, ties to controversial Italian bankers and the Mafia, and high‑profile collapse scandals—most notably the affair—forc...

Feb 1, 2026

Why do some people believe that the Vatican is controlling the world?

Belief that the "controls the world" springs from a mix of real institutional power, historical secrecy, sensational scandals, and a fertile cultural imagination that connects isolated facts into gran...

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