VATICAN CITY
GMA News
JEAN-LOUIS DE LA VAISSIERE, Agence France Presse February 11, 2012
VATICAN CITY – A “plot” to kill Pope Benedict XVI disclosed Friday was only the latest in a series of rumors, leaks and corruption allegations in what experts believe is a bitter power struggle in the Vatican.
The Holy See’s press office has been forced into overdrive in recent days against multiple reports in Italian media centred mainly around the activities of the Vatican bank and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
On Friday, the Vatican dismissed as “delirious” the writings of a cardinal who said he had heard of an unspecified assassination threat on the pope and also described increasingly confrontational ties between the pope and Bertone.
The document — allegedly written up by a Colombian cardinal and quoting declarations reportedly made by Italian cardinal Paolo Romeo during a visit to China — was also dismissed by Romeo himself as “absolutely without basis.”
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