Hmm. Of course, it's no sin to be handsome. Georg's hairline seems to be receding a bit, but bald can be beautiful, and he has a way to go. The brand new archbishop and keeper of the pope's household admits to listening to Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens and wearing long hair in his teen years. Georg is a pilot and a skier, a "man-of-action". Italians call him "Bel Giorgio". I expect Georg will continue his quick climb up the hierarchical ladder. He may even be pope one day.Now Georg Ganswein, the Pope's private secretary, has appeared on the cover of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.
The 56-year-old, blue-eyed Bavarian, who was recently elevated to the rank of archbishop by Benedict XVI and wields ever greater influence within the Vatican, was placed on the cover of the latest edition of the magazine, which went on sale on Wednesday.
"It's not a sin to be handsome" the magazine wrote on its front cover, describing Father Ganswein as "the George Clooney of St Peter's".
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
"BEL GIORGIO" MAKES THE COVER OF "VANITY FAIR"
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"I expect Georg will continue his quick climb up the hierarchical ladder."
ReplyDeleteEw, that conjured a disturbing picture (if rumors be true).
Gänswein's career will die, stone dead, with his boss. As Thomas Gray observed, in his "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,
ReplyDeleteDrowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes", "A favourite has no friend".
Well, I guess we'll wait and see...which I admit sounds a bit ghoulish.
ReplyDeleteWe know what we think about the situation. What do you suppose the College of Cardinals - hardly a bunch of innocents - thinks about it? Incidentally Gänswein's Wiki biography reports a two-year gap in his history, immediately prior to his entering seminary, when it appears that he was studying at the seminary of Archbishop Lefebvre's recently-formed, breakaway Society of St Pius X.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Well, the association with Lefebvre group should count against him, but it may not. Yes, I suppose there might be some in the College of Cardinals who would not welcome Georg into their company with open arms and would not wish him to be pope. The whole lot of bishops and cardinals appointed by JPII and Benedict seem so out of touch, that I hardly know how to read their minds, except on certain subjects about which they seem obsessed.
DeleteLefebvreist connection conceivable a plus nowadays. Guess amitiés particulières are only a problem on lower rungs of the hierarchical scale.
DeleteThe Vatican and the RC hierarchy are in such a mess. How, if ever, the mess can be cleaned up, I can't say.
DeleteMore Vatican can't make this crap up.
ReplyDeleteAlthough tweeting in Latin will not put the pope in touch with many ordinary people, it might be an enjoyable thing for those who are fluent. He plans to keep the living language accounts, too. Actually, I give him credit for both attempts, as some of our churchpeople are still quite reluctant to use the various social network sites to communicate.
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