Journalist names Vigano nephew
who controls Vatican media
from the Secretariat of State
as one of Gabriele's accomplices
How do you think the Secretariat of State will handle this in public? It could not have been a secret to anyone there! And if Vigano's nephew was involved in Vatileaks at all, as the incriminating envelop for Gabriele seems to show , how could they have kept on a viper in the nest all these months? Or will they downplay his involvement? But why should they?
However, a separate trial for Claudio Sciarpelletti is not necessarily a 'whitewash' as newsman Peloso claims in the following article, since he will still be tried, and the same witnesses who were supposed to be called for his part of the crime will still be called.
Peloso has named a monsignor-nephew of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Apostolic Nuncio to the USA, as the person called 'W' in the prosecutor's indictment of Paolo Gabriele, named by Claudio Sciarpelletti, the Secretariat of State information technologist accused of aiding and abetting Gabriele, as having given him the envelop addressed to Gabriele that was found in his desk containing a document that eventually appeared in Gianluigi Nuzzi's book presenting more than 200 documents pilfered from the Pope's desk and from the secretariat of State.
First court hearing on Vatileaks -
the first whitewash, too?
by Francesco Peloso
Translated from
Sept. 30, 2012
[The writer begins his report by wrapping up the facts that took place on the first day of the Vatileaks-connected trial of Paolo Gabriele and the court's decision to try Sciarpelletti separately].
... The trial of Sciarpelletti has been deferred to a later date still to be specified while the trial for the Pope's ex-valet continues. And would seem to proceed like a train so much that, unless there are surprises, it will be over by week's end.
The hearings begin again on Tuesday during which Gabriele himself will take the stand. Among the particulars revealed yesterday was the fact that 82 boxes of documents were retrieved from Gabriele's family home in the Vatican and from the room he occupied in Castel Gandolfo. That seems like an enormous quantity. And also that one of the witnesses to be called will be Mons. Georg Gaenswein, the Pope's private secretary.
Sciarpelletti was indicted for aiding and abetting a crime because he was found in possession of an envelop containing a document which makes up one chapter of Gianluigi Nuzzi's book - and some mail addressed to Gabriele which he said was given to him by Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani, his immediate superior at the Secretariat of State.
But Polvani, who would have been a witness in Sciarpelletti's part of the joint trial will not now be heard in Gabriele's trial. However, Sciarpelletti's attorney has said that, at the very least, the charges against his client concerns Polvani more than Sciarpelletti.
Polvani is the chief of the department in the secretariat of State that oversees L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican Radio, CTV and the Vatican Press Office. He is also the nephew of Mons. Carlo Maria Vigano who was Secretary of the Vatican Governatorate and appears to have indirectly triggered the Vatileaks avalance through the publication of letters he had written to the Pope and to Caridnal Secretary of State Tarciso Bertone, alleging recent episodes of mismanagement if not outright corruption in the Governatorate which he claimed to have straightened out during his service as the secretary, the basis for protesting his reassignment to Washington
[instead of being promoted to become President of the Governatorate, and therefore in line for a cardinal's hat, as he claimed to have been promised by Cardinal Bertone. Vigano's letters turned out to be the first leaked to the media in what came to be known as Vatileaks.]
Thus, there starts to emerge a first 'network' of links between Gabriele and other Vatican figures more or less directly involved in Vatileaks. Gabriele had a treasure trove of documents at his disposition: those that pass endlessly through the Pope's study even if only for signature, and those from some person or persons in the Secretariat of State with their own contributions, as the proof found in Sciarpelletti's desk of correspondence from Polvani to Gabriele seems to show.
Looming large behind this is the figure of Mons. Vigano who paved the way for the public dispute over the Secretariat of State and its management by Cardinal Bertone.
A still uncertain role is that of the person called 'B' in the indictment, referring to Gabriele's confessor to whom he had delivered a large part of the pilfered documents which, the priest says, he then decided to burn.
Gabriele is linked to religious figures from the Wojtyla era through the Church of the Holy Spirit near the Vatican, which is under the Polish Mons. Jozef Bart
[who, shortly after Gabriele was arrested, vouched for his integrity in no uncertain words, in an interview with Andrea Tornielli].
It is known that in the Curia, the anti-Ratzinger fringe - beyond the judicial aspects raised by Vatileaks - originates among men from John Paul II's Curia and in the underground battle among ecclesial movements such as Comunione e Liberazione, Focolari and Opus Dei.
[Since all three movements are known to be pro-Ratzinger, I do not see how their rivalry plays into the anti-Ratzinger strategies!]
The chapter in Nuzzi's book called 'Napoleon in the Vatican' based on the document found in Polvani's envelop for Gabriele, casts a shadow over some officials of the Vatican Gendarmerie, especially Inspector-General Domenico Giani and his deputy, Gianluca Gauzzi Brocoletti (who is involved in security liaison between the Vatican and the Italian government). Both would be called as witnesses in Sciarpelletti's trial. They will not now be heard in this connection at Gabriele's trial.
I always felt from the start that Mons. Vigano himself had something to do, to say the least, with making his accusatory letters public, and I said so in my comments at the time!
9/30/12
P.S. A couple of other Italian MSM journalists have now dared to name Polvani as well [Gee, what took them so long, really? I can't believe it is only now we are told by the Italian media that Sciarpelletti was working directly under Polvani. Why did every Vaticanista adopt a 'hands-off' policy about Polvani even after the prosecutor's indictment had virtually named him when Sciarpelletti admitted that Mons. 'W' had consigned material for Gabriele through him?...
I will translate one which cites a 2009 article by the French Abbe Barthe naming Mons. Vigano and his nephew, Mons. Polvani, as being the 'ringleaders' of the anti-Ratzinger/anti-Bertone Old Guard in the Curia. I now regret I more or less passed over that information at the time, probably because Vigano and Polvani were not 'household names' in terms of the Curia and seemed relatively small potatoes to me. I was forgetting that it is precisely the middle-level bureaucrats who are usually able to move levers because they know the machinery well enough to be able to manipulate and undermine the system as they please... Ignoring the power of the mid-level bureaucrats [think of what such people have been able to wreak upon the world at the UN and in the European Union] has led to all the MSM speculation - I'd even call it 'active expectation' - that some cardinal had to be behind Vatileaks, or somehow involved in it, in their obsession to hoist an Eminence or two on the gallows.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 01/10/2012 07:04]