Is Monsignor Georg Gänswein's absence coming to an end? This foolishness was launched a short while ago by the Argentine newspaper Nation It is certainly surprising that Benedict XVI's former personal secretary is about to be appointed Apostolic Nuncio by Francis. It was written by Vatican expert Elisabetta Piquet, who has known Bergoglio and his entourage well since before 2013.

Indiscretion

According to the rumor I reported Nation, Francis will be about to appoint Ganswein to a position Apostolic ambassadoror “Ambassador” of the Holy See, “Somewhere in the world”. More than a year ago, the historic collaborator of Benedict 67 years old. It is a condition – and it is not mysterious – that makes the German bishop suffer, for decades serving the Holy See alongside the last popes.

According to Pique, the ceremony was given at the beginning of the year on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Benedict XVI, during which it took place Ganswein He would have expressed his readiness to cover any other position. In fact, long before the Pope met face to face in the presence of the four Lord's Memoirs who had assisted Ratzinger in his Mother Ecclesiastical Monastery, Gänswein had already expressed this intention in February 2023 by speaking from Bruno Vespa On Rayono broadcast “five minutes” But shortly afterwards he was “frozen” by Francesco who took time to make a decision, and chose to return to Freiburg without duties.

Attacks

Francis did not understand what Gänswein revealed in his book “Nothing but the truth” And confirmed by Ratzinger's biographer, Peter Seewald. Recently, the reigning pope raised accusations against his former prefect of the papal household “Lack of nobility and humanity” In the interview book “The Saussure” Written with Javier Martinez-Brucal.

Piquet's essay presents the anticipated appointment as an act of mercy. It must be said that Ganswein, 67 years old, is a realist Unemployed for four years and was allegedly without pay for more than a year. Unprecedented treatment for an archbishop, in addition to his experience as the Pope's personal secretary. For example, after the death of John Paul II, his “predecessor” Stanislaw Dziwicz was appointed Archbishop of Krakow and became a cardinal. If the appointment as apostolic nuncio had indeed taken place, it would be difficult to see it as a gesture of mercy. Moreover, there is the question of where the papal representative will be sent to work: just over a year ago at the Vatican, he was appointed nuncio to the faraway Vatican. Costa Rica. It is a hypothesis, however, that Gänswein himself did not explore and has not been verified.

Diplomatic representation in Costa Rica still exists vacantIn addition to those in Georgia, Armenia, Nigeria, the Principality of Monaco, Mozambique, South Africa, Venezuela and Nicaragua, where the nuncio was expelled after tensions with the regime of Daniel Ortega.