Salvatore Izzo is a well-respected religion correspondent for Italian news agency AGI, and sent this note today to the Papa Ratzinger blog:
A newspaper [La Repubblica, the reference is to the article posted by us here] has published other Vatican documents, and it had done so in an attempt to redimension the responsibility of Paolo Gabriele.
It is an unacceptable operation. At the same time, it is clear that the documents have the same origin, therefore we may reasonably presume that it was an accomplice of PG - who had received them prior to the arrest - who handed them to the paper. This assumption seems coherent with the affirmation by Father Lombardi that, on this matter, has said: "we have seen anonymous and signed documents published for months, it is clear that whoever has received this great amount of texts is not considering the intention of making everything known at once and leaving us in peace".
On the other hand, in the article, a true and actual attempt to blackmail the Pope's private secretary and the Cardinal Secretary of State is hinted. It seems to me that journalism has nothing to do with this. We speak here of theft and blackmail, of media operations guided from afar and attempting to block the cleaning operation that Benedict XVI has ordered and that causes so much fear in the old curial apparatus, particularly those compromised with Father Marcial Maciel, and not only him. Among other things, the psychological conditioning that may have induced PG to betrayal recalls the conscience control operated upon the Legionaries by their criminal founder, and this makes us wonder. What also makes us wonder is the coincidence of the offensive of the moles and the path towards reconciliation with the Lefebvrists, that disturbs part of the faithful and of the Hierarchies so much.
