VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
In an interview with the new Vatican news blog, Stanze Vaticane, published on the website of Italian news channel Tgcom24, the cardinal and former president of the Governorate, Giovanni Lajolo, talks about the case that shook the Vatican
Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City
“Mgr. Viganò nurtured suspicions that were proven to be unfounded and went down the wrong track.” This statement was made by Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, former president of the Vatican Governorate, in an interview published on the blog Stanze Vaticane, edited by Fabio Marchese Ragona on the website of the Italian news channel Tgcom24.
Cardinal Lajolo was the first to sign the communiqué issued last 4 February in response to the accusations made in the letters written by the archbishop appointed Nuncio to the U.S. The cardinal stated that “Viganò saw that unfair comments were being made about him in some news articles and he felt deeply hurt by this.” The articles Cardinal Lajolo was referring to, had been published anonymously in the Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale.
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