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New shock in the Vatican: Pope’s private secretary leaves office
ROME.- While the Pope is in Japan, from where he will return tomorrow afternoon, a new news shook the Vatican today: the Argentine priest Fabian Pedacchio, faithful and reserved Private Secretary of Francis since the beginning of his pontificate, almost seven years ago, will leave his very important post.
“I confirm that this is a decision taken for a long time, in line with the way of living of these commissions, as a temporary service, at the end of which another begins, neither reward, nor punishment, but ordinary rotation of functions,” Matteo Bruni, spokesman for the Pope, answered a question from the nation after the Italian agency adnkronos spread this rumor. "The two secretaries of the Holy Father have assumed this ‘part-time’ Commission, without abandoning their previous occupations, to which they can return full-time at the end of a cycle of Service, " Bruni added. With this phrase the papal spokesman alluded to the fact that Pedacchio never gave up his work in the Congregation for the Obipos and that the other private secretary of the Pope, the Egyptian priest Yoannis Lahzi Gaid, when taking office, did not leave his responsibilities in the Arab section of the Secretariat of State.
In these nearly seven years with the Pope, Pedacchio stood by him and showed great loyalty, working in an invisible way, without giving interviews to the media, always flying behind the radars
As the nation was aware, Pedacchio, who has known since August of his departure, will leave his crucial role in December, when he will return full-time to the Congregation for Bishops. In addition, he will stop living in the residence of Santa Marta, the hotel for ecclesiastics where the pope also resides, in the Vatican, to move to the House of the clergy of Via della Scrofa, where he used to stay as archbishop and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, which is very close to Piazza Navona and twenty minutes walk from the Vatican. Pedacchio lived there from 2007 until he was appointed Private Secretary of the pontiff.
It is expected that the pope will appoint another person as private secretary, which is not easy since until now Pedacchio, who handled more than the Pope’s personal agenda in a very discreet manner for almost 7 years, was considered by many to be “irreplaceable”. The appointment of the new private secretary is not from the Holy See but personal, that is, it will not be published in the official bulletins either asunción or as cese.
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New shock in the Vatican: Pope’s private secretary leaves office
ROME.- While the Pope is in Japan, from where he will return tomorrow afternoon, a new news shook the Vatican today: the Argentine priest Fabian Pedacchio, faithful and reserved Private Secretary of Francis since the beginning of his pontificate, almost seven years ago, will leave his very important post.
“I confirm that this is a decision taken for a long time, in line with the way of living of these commissions, as a temporary service, at the end of which another begins, neither reward, nor punishment, but ordinary rotation of functions,” Matteo Bruni, spokesman for the Pope, answered a question from the nation after the Italian agency adnkronos spread this rumor. "The two secretaries of the Holy Father have assumed this ‘part-time’ Commission, without abandoning their previous occupations, to which they can return full-time at the end of a cycle of Service, " Bruni added. With this phrase the papal spokesman alluded to the fact that Pedacchio never gave up his work in the Congregation for the Obipos and that the other private secretary of the Pope, the Egyptian priest Yoannis Lahzi Gaid, when taking office, did not leave his responsibilities in the Arab section of the Secretariat of State.
In these nearly seven years with the Pope, Pedacchio stood by him and showed great loyalty, working in an invisible way, without giving interviews to the media, always flying behind the radars
As the nation was aware, Pedacchio, who has known since August of his departure, will leave his crucial role in December, when he will return full-time to the Congregation for Bishops. In addition, he will stop living in the residence of Santa Marta, the hotel for ecclesiastics where the pope also resides, in the Vatican, to move to the House of the clergy of Via della Scrofa, where he used to stay as archbishop and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, which is very close to Piazza Navona and twenty minutes walk from the Vatican. Pedacchio lived there from 2007 until he was appointed Private Secretary of the pontiff.
It is expected that the pope will appoint another person as private secretary, which is not easy since until now Pedacchio, who handled more than the Pope’s personal agenda in a very discreet manner for almost 7 years, was considered by many to be “irreplaceable”. The appointment of the new private secretary is not from the Holy See but personal, that is, it will not be published in the official bulletins either asunción or as cese.
Nuevo sacudón en el Vaticano: deja su cargo el secretario privado del Papa
Nuevo sacudón en el Vaticano: deja su cargo el secretario privado del Papa
www.lanacion.com.ar
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