Posted on 02/16/2012 7:20:42 AM PST by marshmallow
Confidential documents of the Secretariat of State have been leaked to the press with the objective of damaging Cardinal Bertone, but they ended up having the opposite effect
It was a particularly peaceful Sunday in the Apostolic Palace. Swiss Guards in civilian clothes escorted the guests with their usual tranquillity, in glaring contrast to the nervous anxiety with which the mass media have been following step by step the indiscretions that have leaked from the Vatican. The recent publications of confidential Vatican documents appear to be aimed at giving the impression that there is a conspiracy against a severely ill Pope, but how much awareness or lack of it there is within the papal household in relation to these rumours?
Firstly it must be mentioned that Cardinal Paolo Romeo’s trip from Palermo to Beijing last November was common knowledge. He had been invited by Chinese economists and entrepreneurs and the journey had been arranged with the help of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Upon his return, Romeo had punctually sent to the Vatican a detailed report of the meetings he had attended.
The Pope’s entourage on the other hand does not know who the author of the ‘note’, written in German and published last Friday by daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, was. It was probably someone from Germany or Austria.
It is also common knowledge that Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, who was just the ‘messenger’ so to speak, had read said note at the beginning of the year, together with Benedict XVI and called it an ‘absurd letter, full of nonsense.’ They both agreed to pass the anonymous note to the Second Section of the Vatican Secretariat of State, which deals with foreign affairs, and there the note was supposed to be consigned to oblivion.
(Excerpt) Read more at vaticaninsider.lastampa.it ...
Agreed, with one exception. I find it mind bogglingly(sic?) beautiful that the Spirit uses even the banality of man as part of His plan. We are so much smaller than the works of God.
>...beautiful that the Spirit uses even the banality of man as part of His plan. We are so much smaller than the works of God.<
Amen!
Judas was one of the twelve chosen by Jesus. Probably for Judas, Jesus was not the kind of messiah he wanted.
I am sorry I do not follow. Is the Pope severely ill?
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