![]() So it’s become everyone against everyone.”Īt the Daily Beast, Barbie Latzie Nadeau is among those doubting the butler’s guilt. And those who think that this is the time to step forward. And those who think that Benedict XVI is too weak to lead the Church. Those doing it are acting to protect the Pope.” He added: “There are those opposed to the Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone. “It’s open warfare, with everyone against everyone else. Vatican intelligence has security systems more advanced than anything the CIA has but cardinals are still in the habit of writing their messages by hand and dictating them. “The valet is just a delivery boy that somebody wants to set up. “There’s a group of us: the real brains behind it are cardinals, then there are monsignors, secretaries, small fry,” the informer said. Nick Pisa, The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Rome, describes a situation of shadow warfare and internecine leaking in which even the princes of the church, the cardinals, are involved: Several Italian newspapers carried an interview with an anonymous whistle-blower who explained why the documents were being leaked. Think the Borgias, rather than John XXIII, as the role model. “The Roman Curia has always been a vipers’ nest,” is the view of Vittorio Messori, another historian. In other words, just business as usual at the Holy See. Or, as Alberto Melloni, a church historian puts it in a La Stampa op-ed, “This is a strategy of tension, an orgy of vendettas and pre-emptive vendettas that has now spun out of the control of those who thought they could orchestrate it.” Some say this may be because the paper itself has been an instrument in a power struggle involving reciprocal mud-slinging between allies and enemies of Cardinal Bertone. The Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has ignored the story, notes the South Atlantic news agency MercoPress. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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