Posted on 01/01/2022 5:52:29 PM PST by marshmallow
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the disgraced former sostituto of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, has written to Cardinal George Pell, the former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, declining to explain why he sent millions of euros of Vatican funds to Australia during the run up to Pell’s 2017 criminal trial.
In an open letter dated December 22, Cardinal Becciu wrote that he felt forced to respond to recent media statements by Pell which, he said, “were offensive to my personal dignity” and which impugned his decades of curial service.
“Believe me,” Becciu said, “I am [writing this letter] against my personal desires, because I am now forced to do so by your numerous interventions.”
The cardinal, who was dismissed from his curial positions by Pope Francis in September last year, and is currently on trial in Vatican City charged with embezzlement, abuse of office, and related financial crimes, said he had no intention of responding to claims made by Pell concerning his time at the Secretariat of State, and that engaging with Pell’s statements would be “beneath the dignity of cardinals.”
Claiming that the complicated financial matters which have led to his own criminal trial, and have been the subject of years of media reports prior to Pell’s recent comments, were “little understood by our faithful,” Becciu said he would not engage in the merits of the issues raised by Pell because they are “high, demanding, and certainly confidential.”
Instead, Becciu said he would wait for “the appropriate moment” to answer the various “groundless” charges he faces during his trial, and that he would answer all the accusations against him “point by point” in due course.
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TRANSLATION: “We wish to exercise our rights against self-incrimination.”
Hubris has no place in the Church.
“were offensive to my personal dignity”
In other words, the loser Mr. Angelo feels embarrassed about his mistakes and blames others for his failure.
Regards,
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