Posted on 01/06/2023 3:13:09 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had been dead for just two days when it was revealed that his personal secretary, a striking and influential cleric nicknamed “Gorgeous Georg” by the international press, was publishing a tell-all book that promised to avenge his former boss—and lambast the current pope.
The news came as a shock in the world of Vatican observers. In part, that was because it arrived as the faithful were still, literally, mourning the pontiff at the center of it all. Also because the author, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, has worked as a high-ranking employee for both Francis and Benedict and is situated in a particularly sensitive position in the church.
“This is unprecedented,” Massimo Faggioli, a theologian and church historian at Villanova University, told me over the phone. “The shocking part is it’s the secretary of the former pope who’s raising very serious accusations against the current pope, who’s been very patient with him. At the very minimum, it’s very bad taste.”
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Yes, that’s all kind of weird.
Evilness has its plan.
With B16 gone, we’re in a new era. The gloves are off, on all sides. After the outpouring of affection for the late pontiff over the past week, I’m expecting the churlish Bergoglio to hit back in a big way. Fasten your seatbelts...
Benedict and Gänswein are Germans. Bergoglio is Argentinian.
Did you you flunk geography?
The one I’m going to read.
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