VATICAN CITY
GMA News
Agence France Presse February 4, 2012
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Saturday fiercely refuted claims by one of its top officials of widespread corruption and waste in the management of the Holy See, rejecting the accusations as utterly groundless.
“The claims are the fruit of erroneous judgements, or based on groundless fears, openly contradicted by those called as witnesses,” the head of the Vatican’s governorate, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, said in a statement.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former secretary general of the governorate and current envoy to Washington, had sent strongly-worded letters warning Pope Benedict XVI of corruption, which were published in January in Italian media.
In a rare public rebuke of another top Vatican official, Lajolo said he was “greatly embittered” by the publication of the letters and accusations made.
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