Sandro Magister on the Pope's two super-embarrassing appointments

Further to our article of Saturday on the Vatican's new PR girl -- fragrant and fruity Francesca Chaouqui -- and July's outing of Msgr Battista Ricca, "the prelate of the gay lobby", Len is pleased to recommend "Ricca and Chaouqui, Two Enemies in the House", today's blog by eminent Vaticanista Sandra Magister. Here's a short excerpt from the beginning of the article.

"He the prelate of the IOR, she a commissioner for the reorganization of the Vatican administration. Two appointments desired and decided by Pope Francis, which however are the living negation of his program of housecleaning and reform.

"Both of these appointments were made by Pope Francis, the first through his own highly personal decision. And for both of them, immediately afterward, there came to light grave counter-indications about which the pope was initially in the dark.

"And yet, in late August, no correction of course appears to be in sight."

Why has the Pope done nothing to correct these two obvious and huge mistakes? Are Cardinal Bertone -- the man who would be pope -- and the other disgraced members of the Curia leaving the Holy Father to twist in the wind, his papacy dead in the water because of his disorganization, inexperience and naïveté? Len thinks we won't have to wait long for an answer.