VATICAN CITY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By NICOLE WINFIELD
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says it “truly regrets” the publication of a letter from a psychotherapist detailing the mental health of the Vatican’s recently ousted bank chief.
The letter was published in an Italian newspaper Saturday and appeared aimed at discrediting and humiliating the bank’s ex-president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, long a top papal adviser. The bank’s board ousted Gotti Tedeschi on May 24, accusing him of failing to do his job and impeding the Vatican’s efforts to be more financially transparent.
It is unclear who leaked the letter.
In a statement Monday to The Associated Press, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the publication of the letter was “completely unacceptable and cause for true regret, in particular from the point of view of the respect that should be owed to the interested people.”
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