Pope Francis, Father Georg and the virtue of silence
What happens between Father Georg and Pope Francis? Damato's Scratches
For the secretary of the deceased Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI , who devotedly leaned over the coffin of his superior at his funeral under the eyes of millions of faithful connected by television from all over the world, there may well be a middle ground between the pitiless image of a "Monsignor halved ” – stuck on him in the Corriere della Sera by Aldo Grasso inspired by the famous Viscount Medardo by Italo Calvino – and the hieratic figure, and in one piece, without bandages and other devilry, remained imprinted, perhaps undeservedly according to Grasso, in the eyes and minds of the spectators of 5 January.
WHAT FATHER GEORG SAID TO REPUBLIC
To the Corriere editorialist and television critic, still mindful of the "days when Father Georg enjoyed the confidence of Roman princesses, played tennis, was imitated by Fiorello, was elevated by the magazines to "Geroge Clooney of the Curia", the symbol of the Great Ratzingerian beauty”, the sudden “loquacity” of the prelate was not liked. Who, in the guise of Ratzinger still almost warm, and already engaged in an autobiography with a judicial title, let himself be interviewed by the former director of the Republic Ezio Mauro on the devils warned at work during the years of coexistence in the Vatican between the two Popes, effective and emeritus. Devils also at work against the monsignor himself, halved in his role, in his functions and in all the rest by Pope Francis himself with the invitation to remain "prefect" of the apostolic house but to get out of his mind to really do it. Its enclosure must have been the one known as Santa Marta.
RELATIONS BETWEEN FATHER GEORG AND POPE FRANCIS
In addition to the surprise, dismay and whatever else rightly revealed by Grasso, and attributed by the monsignor to the Pope Emeritus himself when he informed him of his restricted conditions, allow me to imagine the surprise, dismay and whatever else – I repeat – of the same Francis in seeing stories, outbursts and the like of the monsignor in a newspaper: moreover, the one to which he had been accustomed to read and respect at the time by the founder himself, Eugenio Scalfari. Until his death less than a year ago, he had received nothing short of extraordinary treatment from the Pope in the flesh. All that was missing was for him to be nominated cardinal, I would feel like writing if I weren't held back by the fear of blasphemy knowing the condition, so to speak, of a different believer of the late colleague.
I don't think I know even the millionth part of the things about the Vatican that my friend Massimo Franco knows, also from Corriere della Sera like Aldo Grasso, but I feel or feel that the 66-year-old Georg Gaenswein will not be able to have much comfortable and gratifying to expect among the sacred walls. Pope Bergoglio also speaks well of charity, forgiveness and other virtues but I have the impression that he happens to rummage badly when he comes across something that disturbs him. I would therefore advise those who truly respect and love Father Georg not to indulge in his talkativeness: exactly the opposite of how Libero represents him today, conspicuously anticipating the already mentioned autobiographical book with a quotation mark that says: "Yes, I am a falcon and I tell you my truth".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/papa-francesco-padre-georg-cosa-succede/ on Mon, 09 Jan 2023 06:15:41 +0000.