VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
Leaking of documents, conspiracies, power struggles: Vatican coverage speaks only of this. And so it does not see that in the meantime other things are happening. Not bad, but good things. Precisely the ones desired by the pope
by Sandro Magister
ROME, February 16, 2012 – Tomorrow, the eve of the fourth consistory of his pontificate, Benedict XVI will gather all of the cardinals around himself for a day of “reflection and prayer” on a very lofty theme: “The proclamation of the Gospel today.”
Among the cardinals will be Darío Castrillon Hoyos and Paolo Romeo, the two cardinals who in recent days ended up at the center of a case that is anything but lofty, originating from the anonymous account of a conversation between Romeo and a few Chinese interlocutors, in which they are alleged to have gotten the sense “that an attack on the Holy Father is being planned.”
Having come into possession of this anonymous account – full of speculation about power struggles in the Vatican and the election of the future pope – at the beginning of January, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos sent it to secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone. And on February 10, the complete text appeared on the pages of “Il Fatto Quotidiano”:
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