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The Vatican Secretary of State who is “at the centre of the fray” is on the attack, particularly against the press

Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City

The Vatican Secretary of State set four key things straight in yesterday’s interview with Italian Pauline magazine Famiglia Cristiana. The title on the magazine’s front cover – a quotation of a comment made by the Pope’s right hand man was unequivocal: “Poison pen letter writers and the Vatican bank…pure slander”. The cardinal made his stance known after the Substitute for General Affairs to the Secretary of State, Angelo Becciu and the Dean, Cardinal Angelo Sodano expressed their own positions (both published in the Vatican daily broadsheet L’Osservatore Romano). His stance shows a continuity with the messages he has been sending out both inside and outside the Roman Curia, recalling the unity of those close to the Pope and denying…