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Vatican, German press: Francis dismisses Monsignor Gaenswein

February 5, 2020

VATICAN CITY. Yellow in the Vatican. According to reports from the German press this morning, Pope francesco would have “dismissed” Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, prefect of the pontifical house and particular secretary of Benedict XVI. “Don Georg”, as everyone else calls him Oltretevere, 63, remained secretary of Joseph Ratzinger after the renunciation of Peter’s throne in 2013. He has been prefect of the Pontifical Household since 2012.He writes among others the Tagespost, “Pope Francis dismissed the prefect of the Papal Household, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, indefinitely. The Pope’s private secretary emeritus remains at the head of the prefecture, the Vatican office responsible for the Pope’s public audiences, but is exempt from being able to devote more time to Benedict XVI. ”
According to Tagespost, conservative newspaper close to Ratzinger, at the basis of this decision still not confirmed by the Vatican there would be the “unhappy presentation of the book on the priesthood of Cardinal Robert Sarah to which Benedict XVI contributed with an essay”, a presentation that “initially gave the It is an impression that both the Pope emeritus and the prefect of the congregation for divine worship wanted to impose on the reigning Pope how to resolve the question of ‘viri probati’ proposed by the synod on the Amazon “. But according to other sources behind the decision, there may also be simply a temporary health problem.

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