VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
The controversy began with the episode of “The Untouchables” on La7: how the Holy See investigated the incidents cited by the current nuncio to the United States
Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City
There is an episode that was not related in the debate that has gone on for days now about the accusations made by then Secretary of the Governorate, Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, appointed nuncio to the United States, after writing dramatic letters to the Pope and the Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, in which he speaks of episodes of “corruption” in the Vatican. The prelate’s private letters – a story revealed by Vatican Insider last June 26 – addressed to Benedict XVI and his chief collaborator, were exhibited by the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi during the episode of the investigative television program on La7, called “Gli intoccabili”(“The Untouchables”).
In those letters, Viganò, who had by then received news of the Pope’s decision to appoint him as nuncio to the United States, distanced him (by promoting him) from the Governorate after less than two years and after undeniable results of morale-boosting and spending cuts, he claimed to be the victim of a plot, also involving some anonymous articles published in “Il Giornale”, and he named the names and surnames of its instigators, citing as the ultimate instigator Msgr. Paul Nicolini, delegate for the administrative-managerial areas of the Vatican Museums.
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