VATICAN CITY
America Magazine
From CNS, staff and other sources | FEBRUARY 13, 2012
F ederico Lombardi, S.J., director of the Vatican Press Office, criticized as “partisan…partial and banal” an Italian television news program that on Jan. 25 broadcast portions of letters addressed to Pope Benedict and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state. The letters were apparently signed by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, right, and written when he was the secretary general of the commission that governs Vatican City. One of the letters, dated April 4, 2011, said that when Archbishop Viganò took office almost two years earlier, he discovered “chaotic management” and overspending.
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