Within the last week, Walt has written two posts concerning the problems... OK, scandals... swirling around the Vatican in general, and the deceitful, corrupt and possibly heretical Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone in particular. See "What the Vatican butler saw" (27/5) and "Bertone... it's Bertone!" (28/5).
Today, Sandro Magister, one of the most knowledgeable and respected Vaticanisti, weighs in with "The Hunt for Thieves in the Vatican". (See below for links to Italian, French and Spanish versions.) Here are a couple of paragraphs to give you an idea of what Signor Magister thinks of the unholy mess, and the part played by "the exuberant cardinal".
"With justice eliminated, what are kingdoms if not a great band of thieves?" The phrase is from Saint Augustine, but it was Benedict XVI who cited it in his first encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est" of 2005. He didn't know that seven years later it would become the public image of the Vatican. A citadel devastated by thievery, with no corner left inviolate, not even that "sancta sanctorum" which the private desk of the pope should be.
The pope theologian of the great homilies, of the book on Jesus, is the same one who reigns over a curia adrift, a den of "egoism, violence, enmity, discord, jealousy," all of the vices he stigmatized in last Sunday's homily for Pentecost and in so much more of his fruitless prior preaching.
It is the same pope who wanted as his secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and continues to keep him at his post, in spite of the fact that he sees more and more evidence of his inadequacy every day.
In 2010, the irrepressible secretary of state, claiming a presumed mandate from Benedict XVI, even intimated to Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi in writing that he should leave the presidency of the Toniolo. The archbishop of Milan flew off the handle. And Benedict XVI agreed with the latter, after calling both contenders before him.
Speaking to the cardinals [on May 21st], the pope cited Saint Augustine: "All of history is a battle between two loves: love of self even to disregard of God; love of God even to disregard of self." And he added: "We are in this battle, and in it it is very important to have friends. As concerns me, I am surrounded by my friends of the college of cardinals, I feel safe in their company."
Father Federico Lombardi [said], on May 29: "There are no cardinals among the persons of interest or suspects." Not to inconvenience the police, but not all of the cardinal "friends" are playing on the team as the pope expects.
Signor Magister does not refer to Bertone's machinations in the suppression of the Third Secret of Fatima, mentioned here before. As the layers of the conspiracy are peeled away like so much onion skin, the truth of the Fatima Message will be revealed, as will the diabolical deception of Cardinal Bertone and the other "fallen stars" still in high positions in the Church.
The full text of Sandro Magister's article, in other languages, may be found here:
Italian - Caccia al ladro in Vaticano
French - Chasse aux voleurs au Vatican
Spanish - Caza al ladrón en el Vaticano
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