Tuesday, Oct. 2, 26th Week in Ordinary Time
Feast of the Guardian Angels
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
No events announced for the Holy Father.
A news conference was held to present the International Conference to be held in Rome Oct. 3-5
on "Studies of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council in the light of the Conciliar Fathers' archives"
to mark the 50th anniversary of the Council opening.
The stories are still dribbling in on the second day of the Paolo Gabriele trial when he took the stand for the first time, saying he was not guilty of aggravated theft [despite all the evidence and his own admissions] but of betraying the Pope. But perhaps his most outrageous statement reported so far was that
"My conviction ripened [over time] that it was very easy to manipulate a person with such enormous decisive powers". This simple-minded but delusional man really thinks very little of Benedict XVI whom he seems to see as someone totally naive, uninformed and with so little common sense that he needs him, Gabriele, to watch over him. Can anyone be so delusional - and so insulting to the Pope? Of course, the psychological profiles done on him by the court-appointed psychiatrists did identify megalomania as one of his traits.
P.S. Come to think of it, Gabriele is no worse than all those reporters and commentators who have been so supercilious and condescending to Benedict XVI in their writings - the Politi types and, not rarely, John Allen - wishing to imply, of course, that they can think better than one of the brightest, clearest minds on earth whom they believe cannot see obvious things that would be self-evident even to a moron, and is incapable of making right judgments. That's exactly Gabriele's attitude. I wish I could sincerely say of the commentators and Gabriele, "Father forgive them..." even knowing full well that they are all nails on the Cross Benedict XVI must bear as Christ's Vicar on earth.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 02/10/2012 17:35]