Archbishop Gänswein finally speaks out about his shabby treatment by a vindictive Pope Francis. "The centrality of Christ has forcefully returned to the forefront of the homilies and words of the universal pastor of the Church."
Vatican, Monsignor Georg Gänswein speaks: "My truth about three Popes"
From Benedict XVI to Leo XIV, passing through Francis. Ratzinger's former secretary and right-hand man, "expelled" from the Vatican by Bergoglio, reveals secrets of the Holy See: from unauthorized recordings to prophecies that later came true.
It's almost surreal to meet Monsignor Georg Gänswein in a small room reserved just for the two of us at Casa Santa Marta, the place where Pope Francis lived—and died—for twelve years. The former secretary and right-hand man of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and then Benedict XVI was misunderstood, badly expelled from the Vatican, and perhaps even a little vilified. In this sort of hotel, renovated under Wojtyla to accommodate cardinals during conclaves, in the final years of the Bergoglian era, Msgr. Gänswein was considered an enemy, and therefore an unwelcome guest. Yet today, the current Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic Republics is serene and smiling, as if that anguished period …