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There is only one precedent in the two thousand year history of the Catholic Church. Overwhelmed by the “opaque” affair (words of Secretary of State Pietro Parolin) of the sale of the London Palace by financier Raffaele Mincione, Archbishop Angelo Becciu resigned not only from the post of Head of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, but of “Rights related to the fact of being a cardinal”, beginning with that of entering the next Conclave.
All of this happened after a shocking encounter with Pope Francis.
In short, it will leave purple. There is no recollection of such a disturbing event for the Roman Curia and the Vatican, which also recently saw the removal of another cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, to the secular state.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Pope Pius XI made French Cardinal Louis Bouyer resign. ″ In that case – observes Don Davide Scito, professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. – it was for doctrinal reasons. “But here is a completely different story. Becciu was an alternate to the Secretary of State for five years also with Pope Bergoglio (after being called to this position by Benedict XVI). Basically the chief of staff of the government of the Curia. And then promoted to cardinal in 2018.
The encounter with Bergoglio does not appear to have been peaceful and Pope Francis, metaphorically or not, has hit the table with some fists. Which is not surprising, given the scope of the decision and the personality of the now ex-cardinal, designated for years as one of the emerging in the ranks of the Vatican Curia. But also given the personality of the Pope and his decision to deal with the residues of a financial season within the Sacred Walls.
One road, Becciu’s, ran smoothly and smoothly for a long time, then got bogged down in the thorny story of the sale of an entire building in London’s poshest neighborhood, which was followed by a confrontation with Parolin. The resignation -maybe- will remove Becciu from the criminal investigations underway in the Vatican (at least two) about a story truly shrouded by London smoke and that disarms in time until 2012, when the Vatican decided to invest in that Palace then a significant disposal of some 200 million euros that was placed in the Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
The only comment of the night of the ex-cardinal confided to AdnKronos with a broken voice: ″ I prefer silence ″.
Contrary to the narrative fed against Bergoglio of a papacy that has come to an end, and full of contradictions, also relaunched in Massimo Franco’s essay published yesterday for Solferino, entitled “l’Enigma Bergoglio”, (containing a defense of Becciu with an explicit reference to the history of the Sloane Avenue building), the fact that the former cardinal had to present his resignation to the Pope demonstrates an emblematic fact, which now in the Vatican also pays those above. The investigation, initiated in 2019 by two complaints presented by the IOR and the Auditor General, led to the suspension of five officials: two managers of the Secretary of State, Vincenzo Mauriello and Fabrizio Tirabassi, an administration official, Caterina Sansone and two senior officials . Vatican officials, Monsignor Maurizio Carlino, head of the Information and Documentation Office (and former personal secretary of Becciu), and former IDA director Tommaso Di Ruzza). Last June, the runner from Termoli, Gianluigi Torzi, was arrested and later released by the Vatican Gendarmerie. While the financier Mincione has “agreed” to deliver his electronic devices with the Vatican Gendarmerie through a letter rogatory in Italy. But the investigations took a tremendous acceleration after it emerged that an offer had been made to buy back the property in early summer to try to avoid major losses to the Vatican, a story told in Emiliano’s “Domani” bulletin. Fittipaldi, an attempt in which a former Italian ambassador, an American financier and Marco Simeon, a henchman of former Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, were also protagonists, as well as the old protagonists of the story (Mincione, Torzi).
This attempt raised more questions about the operation and the round of incoming and outgoing money to make it possible. A few days ago Raffaele Mincione sued the Financial Times, for what was written about it by the City newspaper and asked the Court to prove his good faith.
Becciu was even considered among the possible candidates, he had also been appointed the Pope’s delegate in the Order of Malta, had been one of the blows of the next two Vatileaks and had never hidden his opposition to the line of Cardinal George Pell, tsar of the economy. at the beginning of the pontificate of Bergoglio.
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