VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
(By Denis Greenan). Vatican City, October 10 – In another sign that he is taking energetic steps to change the governance that at times seemed to baffle his predecessor, Pope Francis on Thursday conferred with the Vatican official whose allegations led to the Vatileaks scandal. There was no official statement after Francis received the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Carlo Maria Vigano’, but Vatican watchers saw the talks as part of a shake-up including stopping cronyism and lobbies – including a gay one – and cleaning up the scandal-plagued Vatican Bank, IOR. Vigano’ was formerly the second-ranked administrator to Pope Benedict XVI, serving as secretary-general of the governatorate of Vatican City State from July 2009 to September 2011. In letters to Benedict XVI and to Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, Vigano’ begged not to be transferred to the US for blowing the whistle on alleged corruption that may have cost the Vatican millions of euros in inflated procurement contracts. Vigano’s correspondence was stolen and leaked to the press by Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, giving rise to the Vatileaks scandal that reverberated around the world amid a media feeding frenzy. The Vatican court sentenced Gabriele to 18 months in prison for theft in October 2012. Pope Benedict XVI pardoned the former butler in December 2012.
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