VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
The Governorate’s release and Father Lombardi’s earlier statement: the nuncio’s position in the United States is more and more poised
Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City
The long seven-point statement with which Saturday, February 4, today’s and yesterday’s highest authorities in the Vatican Governorate have denied and dismissed as unfounded the allegations contained in the letters sent by archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to the Pope and to cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has rekindled the world spotlight on a story that had gone off in terms of media.
The two cardinals, Giovanni Layolo and Giuseppe Bertello, respectively former and present president (the latter was made cardinal on February 18), together with Giuseppe Sciacca, current secretary of the Governorate, and Giorgio Corbellini, former assistant secretary of the Governorate, have signed a detailed defence in which they state they do not wish to enter into the details of individual allegations submitted by Viganò, though belying them one by one, their evident purpose being the reaffirmation of the good name of the Governorate and of people working there.
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