VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
Day by day during one year
Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City
January 25th, 2012
During an episode of “Gli Intoccabili”, aired on La 7 and hosted by Gianluigi Nuzzi, the letters that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (secretary of the Governorate then promoted/removed as nuncio to the United States) sent to the Pope and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone were released. In the month of January, in the Italian newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano”, several documents were published: an account concerning an alleged plot against the Pope, and some notes about the Vatican Bank.
February 6th, 2012
The first denunciation to Vatican justice is formalized.
February 22nd
A private note sent by Father Federico Lombardi to the secretary of the Pope, Georg Gänswein on the case of Emanuela Orlandi is partially released.
May 19th
Gianluigi Nuzzi’s book is released in book stores. The book contains, among various documents, the transcription of encrypted documents from the nunciatures, and also contains a budget of the Ratzinger Foundation which had been sent only to the Pope and had not cleared the Secretariat of State.
May 21st
A dramatic meeting of the the Pontifical Family, convened by Mgr. Georg Gänswein, takes place in the papal apartment. The secretary of the Pope speaks openly of the suspicions of Paolo Gabriele in his presence. The accused denies being responsible for the massive leak of documents.
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