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As expected, after a brief two-week hiatus more or less enforced on the media by the Synodal Assembly and the Year of Faith, today, the Italian MSM, at least, went back with a vengeance today to their all-Gabriele-all-the-time point of view for reporting on the Vatican, on the pretext that the unspeakable cad [whom some in the Italian media hold up as a hero and an instant saint - one disgusting picture even showed him with a halo above his head] finally started serving his prison sentence today. Moreover, the Secretariat of State decided to weigh in and publish an official communique about Gabriele's crime and its consequences... I just find it outrageous and embarrassingly emblematic that Italian media has spent much more verbiage and play today on Gabriele than they ever did on the two new Doctors of the Church and the seven new saints combined...And now, out of duty, and for the record, here is a translation of the SecState communique this morning...
COMMUNIQUE FROM THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE
Translated from
October 25, 2012
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The sentence in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, which has now gone into execution, marks a firm point on a sad episode which has had very painful consequences.
A personal offense has been committed against the Holy Father; the right to privacy of many persons was violated, persons who had written to him because he is the Pope; it has created undue prejudice against the Holy See and its institutions; it has placed an obstacle to the communications between the bishops of the world and the Holy See, and has caused scandal to the community of the faithful.
Finally, for a period of several months, it has disturbed the atmosphere for those who work daily in the service of the Successor of Peter.
The accused was found guilty at the end of a judicial process that took place with transparency and equanimity, and in full respect of the accused person's right to defense. The discussions in court were able to ascertain facts, and verified that Mr. Gabriele carried out his criminal undertaking without the instigation or incitement of others, but based only on his personal beliefs which can by no means be shared. Various conjectures about the existence of plots or the involvement of others, were shown to be unfounded.
With the execution of his sentence, Mr. Gabriele must serve the prison term meted him. At the same time, a procedure against him hss started for destitution of rights [reduction of his rights because of the nature of the crimes) he committed, such as, for instance, restricting the kind and nature of jobs he can work at, as a Vatican citizen, and in the Vatican, after he serves his prison term] under the General Regulations of the Roman Curia.
Regarding Mr. Gabriele's detention, the eventuality of a concession of clemency remains, which, as has been stated many times, is a sovereign act that can be done by the Holy Father alone. Nonetheless, that also implies a reformation of the criminal himself and his sincere request of forgiveness from the Holy Father and everyone who has been unjustly harmed because of his crime.
Compared to the damage that he caused, the penalty given to Mr. Gabriele appears at the same time mild and equitable, because of the peculiarity itself of the judicial system in force.
I certainly hope that during his 18 months in jail, Gabriele will not be given any computer and Internet privileges at all. God forbid he should spend all that idle time revelling in how he has been glorified in the media, or cultivating all-too-willing allies online who will further inflate an already stratospheric ego and incite him to God knows what other wilder forms of messianic delusion! Depriving him of Internet access might actually be the cruellest form of punishment for his type! Color me cynical, but I doubt types like Gabriele could ever 'reform'... I hope the Holy Father lets him serve his full jail term, at the end of which he can say to him, perhaps in a letter, nothing public (I don't think a public 'act of clemency' is necessary if he will not have commuted the almost perfunctory sentence, since it will then have no practical news value), but its moral value cannot be more significant: "As a Christian, I forgive you for what you did to me, but I cannot forgive you in behalf of all the other people you betrayed or harmed by your actions. You must seek their forgiveness individually, but how will you redress the harm you have done to them? Or to the Church and the faithful that you have scandalized? Jesus said, 'Go and sin no more'. It's a difficult standard to live up to, but first, you must realize and accept that you sinned and harmed many people, as well as the Church, regardless of how noble you believe your intentions to be".
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