VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
A senior Vatican prelate has claimed that a “strategy of confusion” is behind the current leaks scandal, arguing that the recent torrent of leaked documents is intended to paint a picture of the Vatican as a “ship without a helmsman”, thereby undercutting the moral leadership of Pope Benedict XVI.
The comments came from Italian Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican’s former top diplomat and then, until October 2011, the man who led the Government of the Vatican City State. That’s the office where Arcbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, today the pope’s ambassador in the United States, held the number two role.
It was two confidential letters from Viganò to the pope and to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, complaining of corruption and cronyism in the finances of the government, which triggered the recent avalanche of leaked documents.
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