The knots between Pope Francis and Father Georg
What is happening between Pope Francis and Father Georg? The telenovela continues in the Vatican… I Graffi di Damato
As well as today, between the Pope's audience with Giorgia Meloni, the Council of Ministers and others, yesterday was a hellish day – indeed, even more so – for reporters, photographers and television operators forced to chase after events : the meeting at Palazzo Chigi between the Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission, the commemoration of Davide Sassoli one year after the untimely death of the then President of the European Parliament, the participation of the President of the Republic in the preview of the film on General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, the pride of both Italy and the Carabinieri, the Pope's audience with diplomats accredited to the Holy See.
THE AUDIENCE OF POPE FRANCIS WITH FATHER GEORG
Without wanting to take anything away from all this, the audience of Pope Francis with the secretary of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was overshadowed by its unexpected nature. To accompany the sudden news with some images, it was necessary to resort to archive photos and – I fear – more to intuitions than concrete information to report on the content of the hearing. Of which it has not been possible to know for sure, for example, who promoted it: whether Pope Francis or Father Georg, the first convoking the other or the other asking and obtaining to be received quickly. I would lean towards the second hypothesis, having learned from a good source of the unpleasant surprise felt by the secretary of the deceased pontiff in front of the headline fired yesterday morning on the entire first page by Libero to anticipate the content of his autobiographical book, already sensational in the title from the trial " Nothing but the truth."
"The clash between the Popes", shouted the newspaper directed by Alessandro Sallusti, attributing these, to say the least, seismic words to the monsignor in quotation marks. "Bergoglio's followers already in 2005 wanted to stop the election of the Pope", that is, of Joseph Ratzinger, later called Benedict. "Yes, I – continued the quotation mark – I am a hawk and I tell you my truth".
Today Libero has brought the continuation of the affair almost to the bottom of the first page to warn, not even this time helping the secretary of the deceased Pope Emeritus much, that he "risks exile".
WHAT THE VATICANIST VECCHI WROTE
For his part, the Vatican correspondent for Corriere della Sera Gian Guido Vecchi reports: “The question remains of the future of Ganswein, now prefect of the papal household. If in the German Church they do not seem enthusiastic about the idea of returning home as bishop or otherwise, a diplomatic post in a nunciature abroad or a Roman settlement, possibly discreet, has been hypothesized”.
In the title, again in the Corriere della Sera , affixed to the news, Father Georg is told to the Pope in, I would say, defensive and repentant tone: “Malicious rumors. Now I have to shut up." Malevolent rumors fueled by the words of the same "Monsignor halved", as the prelate has been defined, unfortunately published and interpreted "out of context": a word very dear to the good soul of Leonardo Sciascia.
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-udienza/ on Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:15:00 +0000.