Vatican angered by TV report on nuncio’s criticisms
The Vatican’s spokesman has downplayed references to “corruption” in a letter apparently sent to Pope Benedict XVI by a Vatican official who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Fr Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican Press Office, criticised as “partisan” “partial and banal” an Italian television news programme, which broadcast portions of letters addressed to Pope Benedict and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State.
The letters were apparently signed by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano and written when he was the secretary general of the commission governing Vatican City.
One of the letters, dated April 4, 2011, said that when Archbishop Vigano took office almost two years earlier, he discovered a “disastrous situation” of “chaotic management” and overspending on contracts.
The letter also complained of a “media campaign” launched by opponents of the archbishop’s efforts at reform, and implored the Pope not to remove him from his job, “even for promotion to a more important post”.
The Pope named Archbishop Vigano as nuncio to the US in October 2011.
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Source: Catholic Herald
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