Here is an interesting take on the private
letters, from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to Pope Benedict XVI, that were leaked to the press and
which have led to reports of alleged corruption in the Vatican. It is titled “That 33% chance …”.
That 33% Chance
“"Agnosco stilum Curiae...", a play on words meaning ‘I recognize the style of the Roman Church’ but also ‘I recognize the dagger of the Roman Church.’ Well, this time it seems rather more like an axe than a dagger and not even a well concealed one.
If
everything we have heard and read about the letter attributed to the current
Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., Carlo Maria Viganò, was true, that it was given
to the Pope and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and
that it included an assortment of
figures and accusations (some specific and some quite vague and generic), one
would naturally wonder who gave that
letter to the journalist. There are three people who had a copy of it, the
person who wrote it and those who received it. It would therefore be feasible
to say that for each of them there was a 33% chance of being responsible for
leaking said document to the press. An epistle in which every word was steeped in rancour and
bitterness, all because of a desired nomination to cardinalship that didn’t happen
and perhaps now never will.
It
is unlikely that either Benedict XVI or Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone gave such a
serious and confidential document to a
television network. But maybe they got distracted and left it lying around
after having read it, since they had so many other matters to think about.
There
is however a 33% chance that it was actually the Nuncio himself, who, livid about the promotion he did not receive,
was directly or indirectly responsible for the infamous leak. That 33% chance
is enough to lead us to believe that maybe Benedict XVI did the right thing by
not answering the letter with a nomination to cardinalship.”[i]
The Vatican has been quite vocal in repeatedly
denying that there is any truth in the corruption allegations. Could this
article be cutting to the bone of what lies behind these allegations?
(You can read a copy of the letter of Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò in my post titled “With deep sadness”.)
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