Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Vatican intrigue

It has just been upped. Pope John Paul's private secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, disobeyed the Pope's order to burn his private papers.
Don Stanislao, as he was known in the Vatican, was the pope's constant companion and the two enjoyed a relationship described as father-son and love-hate.

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"[Dziwisz] was the most hated man in the Vatican," said one Polish observer.

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The Polish archbishop gave no hint as to how many papers he has declined to burn. "He's clever to make this announcement," said the Polish source.

The source continued: "It's his way of saying, 'I have my hands on these papers, nobody knows what's in them'. There's a real danger that he could invent an order of John Paul's, leading to the promoting or firing of people, and there would be no way of checking it."

  UK Independent article

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