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| Msgr Federico Lombardi |
Italian media report that a cardinal is suspected of playing a major role in the "Vatileaks" scandal. However, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico Lombardi, denied the reports. He said many Vatican officials were being questioned in the investigation but insisted: "There is no cardinal under suspicion."Well, if the Rev Lombardi says so.... But then Lombardi also said:
He also dismissed as "pure fantasy" a rash of other unsourced reports about the investigation in the Italian media, which have been in a frenzy ever since reports of Gabriele's detention emerged last Friday.
...that the Pope had never been a member of the Hitler Youth, but journalists quickly pointed out to him that Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope, had admitted this himself in the 1997 book Salt of the Earth.The ineptitude is stupefying. If the news is bad, deny, always deny; get the facts later.
I hope the butler is receiving good legal advice, because he's up against heavy hitters.
UPDATE LAGNIAPPE:
That's not Lombardi, Mimi, that's Gorgeous Georg Gänswein, the Pope's private secretary.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lapin. Corrected. All clergy look alike to me. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI believe in taking most Vatican pronouncements with a pinch of salt.
ReplyDeleteIt never ceases to amaze me the things that go on in Ecclesiastical circles.
ReplyDeleteugh. the previous comment should have been posted like under this name NOT as teaheepeehee.
ReplyDeleteoh well.
UKV, with more than a pinch of salt, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteRev boy, how about the ecclesiastical semi-circle with the pope's golden cope?
I kinda, sorta like your other name. It's good to hear from you.
good to be here GM. I really have no comment about the semi circle except Lord Have Mercy.
ReplyDeleteChanneling JoeMyGod commentary (re pic): "It's a Little-Boy Net" (Unfair, but fair, if you know what I mean)
ReplyDeleteGold clothing looks good on very few people. The gentlemen in the picture do not belong to that select few.
ReplyDeleteIs that "Strictly Come Dancing" or "Italy's Got Talent"?
ReplyDeleteI was charmed by one of the comments at the site where I found the picture of the pope: "All or nearly all the garments are hand-me-downs."
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