VATICAN CITY
CathNews
BY MICHAEL MULLINS
Sandro Magister writes on the Vatican leaks, bickering among Cardinals Bertone and Nicora on the Vatican Bank, and a bungled attempt by the some cardinals to take over a major hospital in Milan. His conclusion:
“The boundary between illicit acts and those of simple mismanagement has become very slender, almost nonexistent”.
The Tablet’s Robert Mickens blames the troubles on a “lack of transparency in most of the Roman Curia’s operating structures” that is a consequence of “the clericalist ethos that permeates the curia”.
[Clericalism] serves only to shield members of the hierarchy from being judged by (or held accountable to) anyone of lower rank or by the lay faithful – and certainly from anyone outside the Vatican… In the end, the continued confusion and negative press that all of this has generated have cast this pontificate in an extremely negative light.
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