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The nice name: Gardener’s hut. And the building looks like a little jewel of red brick with a turret, between large white marble cherubs and seen from above by a black statue of Saint Peter, in a small basin of the Vatican Gardens. But to break the vaguely bucolic image of a glass and aluminum sentry box, where a sentry alternates with other guards twenty-four hours a day: there is a fear that someone will sneak into the cabin. The comings and goings of technicians and IT experts count months of very delicate investigationsConfiscated computers in Vatican offices are analyzed and deciphered, in search of unspeakable mysteries on the financial troubles of some excellent representatives of the Holy See.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has demoted him to amen, taking off his cardinalate and blocking the doors of a future conclave. Standard phrase, unappealable: You no longer have my confidence, although I pronounce it with a touch of pain. And think that the pontiff had promoted him two years ago, after retaining him until 2018 as undersecretary of state, a kind of Minister of interior.
In fact, she had supported him even in the most complex passages in recent years. When the career of George Pell, an Australian cardinal, broke down in the summer of 2017, czar of the economy and opponent of many, including BecciuFrancesco looked overwhelmed and resigned. Faced with the accusations of pedophilia against Pell and the trial he had to undergo in Australia, despite being perplexed, he had fired one of the men he had opted for to clean up the finances of the Holy See. And when a few months later General Supervisor Libero Milone, Pell’s operational arm, said that there was discharged because he was threatened with arrest, pointing a finger at the Gendarmerie and Becciu, the Pope had sided with the latter.
But Pell ultimately emerged unscathed and rehabilitated from the legal proceedings. In his Via Crucis trial, the shadow of a dark maneuver handled with Australian guns and Vatican ammunition was stretched, according to an intellectual friend of the Pope and of Pell himself. And next week the former plenipotentiary will return to Rome from his Australia after more than three years of absence, without his position: just as Becciu was forced to defend himself not only because of shameful accusations, but because of a papal reaction that in Vatican circles has left everyone stunned; and after the head of the Gendarmerie, Domenico Giani, very close to the Italian cardinal, was induced to resign on October 14, 2019, with official reasons that did not convince everyone.
The story of the cooperative that seduced Becciu sow similar doubts. If we had to fire all the cardinals that give money to family members, few would remain, the joke tinged with curial cynicism that gathered yesterday among the so-called Sacre Mura. An echo of the boundless clash that has occurred in recent years was felt at Becciu’s press conference yesterday morning. In addition to defending the money payments for which he was accused of embezzlement,spoke about past tensions with Pell: tensions that still seem incandescent, if the lapidary statement attributed to the Australian cardinal and released yesterday is true. They are few words with a taste of bile towards Becciu. The Holy Father was chosen to clean the finances of the VaticanPell would have written. Did a long job and you should be grateful and congratulated (sic) for the recent developments. I hope that the cleaning of the stables continues both in the Vatican and in Vittoria. The Australian state of Victoria is where Pell appears to believe the legal trap has been set for him. But the Roman side suggests more lasting and traumatic repercussions. The reckoning phase has been reopened in a virulent way; in fact, it had probably only frozen during the coronavirus emergency. And the pontiff, although weakened, seems determined to react harshly to the scandals that have emerged in recent months.
September 26, 2020 (change September 26, 2020 | 07:42)
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