Vaticangate

Vaticangate -- the recent series of Wikileaks-type revelations in the Italian press about relatively mild skull-duggery in the Vatican bureaucracy -- seem to me to have several roots: 1) Papa Ratzi is aging -- likely there will be another Consistory in the next 10 years (or maybe 5), and electioneering to choose the next Pope is beginning. 2) The book "His Holiness" is aimed directly at knocking ABp.Tarcisio Bertone out of the list of possible papabile. (Bertone is the same sort of friend of Papa Ratzi as Ratzi was of JPII -- no dynasties wanted!) 3) Liberal Cardinals and Bishops are beginning to take aim at Opus Dei -- the irridentist and revanchist (Forward to 1870!!!") storm troops that JPII canonized to fight Jesuit heresy and anarchy left by Paul VI. 4) Vatican money affairs are improving as the various Capos and Consigilari are moved away from the seats of power. This will be a long, slow process, considering that some of the families have had their fingers in the pie since around 600 AD.