How, then, do you explain the relative lack of interest in the Calvi case?
It is striking how many people are prepared to believe the worst about the Roman Catholic Church. In the case of the Calvi story though, I think some people, especially in Italy, have lost patience with it. They feel the mystery is insoluble. Information about it has been dribbling into the public domain for 25 years and people have difficulty in distinguishing between what is new and what may already have been published in the newspapers 20 years ago. The role of the church in the Calvi saga has remained particularly unclear and there are plenty of people who would like it to remain that way. For potential readers suffering from Calvi-fatigue the only remedy would be a really clear-cut answer to the mystery, which for the moment doesn’t exist. One of the factors that Calvi seems to have banked upon was that he held secrets that would be disastrous to the Vatican/Political Parties/ and perhaps the Mafia. He may have lost his life over these secrets, but one of the lessons of recent Ita
