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In reply to the discussion: "Monsignors' mutiny" revealed by Vatican leaks [View all]Renew Deal
(83,659 posts)3. Pope Benedict is running the Vatican like Bush ran the US, and he's getting Bush like outcomes
At least that's how I read this:
The sources agreed that the leaks were part of an internal campaign - a sort of "mutiny of the monsignors" - against the pope's right-hand man, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Bertone, 77, has a reputation as a heavy-handed administrator and power-broker whose style has alienated many in the Curia, the bureaucracy that runs the central administration of the 1.3 billion-strong Roman Catholic Church.
He came to the job, traditionally occupied by a career diplomat, in 2006 with no experience of working in the church's diplomatic corps, which manages its international relations. Benedict chose him, rather, because he had worked under the future pontiff, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office.
Bertone, 77, has a reputation as a heavy-handed administrator and power-broker whose style has alienated many in the Curia, the bureaucracy that runs the central administration of the 1.3 billion-strong Roman Catholic Church.
He came to the job, traditionally occupied by a career diplomat, in 2006 with no experience of working in the church's diplomatic corps, which manages its international relations. Benedict chose him, rather, because he had worked under the future pontiff, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in the Vatican's powerful doctrinal office.
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Pope Benedict is running the Vatican like Bush ran the US, and he's getting Bush like outcomes
Renew Deal
Feb 2012
#3
This whole business sounds so ...... medieval. There was speculation about assassination of the
yellowcanine
Feb 2012
#6
Well yes, that is why I thought the whole thing was very medieval. Something seriously
yellowcanine
Feb 2012
#21
Don't all the Popes wear those red shoes? I thought it was part of the papal costume.
yellowcanine
Feb 2012
#23
The scandal described below didn't happen during Benny XVI's era, but it is
BlueMTexpat
Feb 2012
#15
The main function of all institutions, no matter how good their initial purpose,
Thor_MN
Feb 2012
#22