Bertone has come under attack because of financial questions and the discontent aroused among diplomats. Among the names of potential substitutes for the post of Secretary of State, is Cardinal Leonardo Sandri
Marco Tosatti
Vatican City
Behind the Vatican Walls is a cunning old fox, which is very close to the upper echelons of the Vatican and told me what is going on in the world’s smallest state. It struck me as a plausible story so I will tell it to you now; bear in mind, however, that all that I was told may not be one hundred per cent true.
The objective of this series of revelations, pseudo-revelations, leaked news (which is mostly dated) and resentments, is to get rid of the Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, who will turn 78 next December, and to substitute him with someone else. But with whom? Well, a candidate may have already been picked out; two in fact; but this I will go into at another moment. There are a number of different forces and sentiments that seem to be converging on this operation. Looking at the list of the figures that were described to me as the main characters of this anti-Bertonian environment, they could be defined as “diplomats of the Kabbalah”; obviously not all of the Pope’s diplomats. But some of them, either actively or passively.
The first person to become implicated was Carlo Maria Viganò. This occurred when the famous television programme case broke out following the letter he had addressed to the Pope (which was copied to Bertone). His cool feelings towards the current Secretary of State are due to a number of factors. Rumour has it that Bertone had dangled before him the prospect of a position in the Curia, a promise which he was then unable or unwilling to keep. Rightly or wrongly, Viganò holds him responsible for what he sees as an exile. Viganò had been head of staff in the Secretariat of State for ten years. In short, he knows everything about everyone. His enemies speak of a chest of letters that was supposedly sent to America, which is allegedly being guarded jealously. This could all be fantasy, but it still gives an idea of the climate in recent days. It must not be forgotten that one of his predecessors as Secretary of the Governorate has gone to Spoleto and the other to Loreto, two cities in Italy; or the fact that he could become Nuncio to Washington, the Pope’s most important embassy in the world. But word has it that Viganò wants to return to Rome and this is the reason why he has not given up his Vatican apartment.
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