Ricca and Hottie Biscotti, Two Enemies in the House

ROME, August 26, 2013 – More than two months have passed since the unhappy appointment of Msgr. Battista Ricca as “prelate” of the Institute for Works of Religion and more than a month since that, no less unhappy, of Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui (see photo) as a member of the commission for the reorganization of the financial-administrative Vatican offices.

Both of these appointments were made by Pope Francis, the first through his own highly personal decision.

And for both of them, immediately afterward, there came to light grave counter-indications about which the pope was initially in the dark.

And yet, in late August, no correction of course appears to be in sight.

With regard to the “prelate” of the Vatican bank, after the appointment Pope Francis was soon informed by several trusted persons about the scandalous past of this figure and about the cover-up that he had enjoyed and still enjoys at the Vatican. And to these persons he expressed his gratitude.

The words of the pope that the media all over the world picked up with the greatest emphasis - in an outpouring of favorable comments on his "openness" to homosexuals - were interpreted as a suspension of judgment: "If a person is gay and is seeking the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge him?"

And thus with him there will remain intact the glaring contradiction between the work of housecleaning and reorganization of the Roman curia that Pope Francis has repeatedly said he wants and the “prelate” of his appointment in whom he continues to place his trust, a perfect emblem precisely of those scandalous behaviors and of those “lobbies” of power which should be swept away.

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