So says Die Tagespost. But as Silvio Berlusconi’s daughter puts it, “the bread was already in the bakeries.”
Newsroom (31/01/2023 21:55, Gaudium Press) The Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost reveals that Msgr. Georg Ganswein, Benedict XVI’s secretary and nominal prefect of the Papal Household, is alleged to have tried to prevent the publication of his memoirs with the Pope Emeritus, “Nothing but the Truth,” the most eagerly awaited writing in the Church in recent times.
With this intention, Msgr. Ganswein “approached the top management of the Mondadori Group”, the world-renowned publishing house which publishes Nothing but the Truth, and specifically “Marina Berlusconi, the daughter of Silvio Berlusconi”, former Italian President, but she confirmed that the work was already “in the last distribution channels” and, for this reason, could not grant his request.
What makes a person as serious and experienced in storms of public opinion as Msgr. Ganswein want to prevent the publication of some memoirs that had cost him sweat and as far his heart had stopped. That’s where the hypotheses begin, especially those of the recent meetings with the Vatican secretary of state and Pope Francis himself, who received him in a brief audience last Monday.
From that meeting of Benedict XVI’s secretary with Francis, the only thing that came out of Msgr. Ganswein was, according to the Corriere Della Sera, the laconic phrase: “now I must be silent.”
Shortly afterward, the media revealed that, at the express indication of the Pontiff himself, Msgr. Ganswein was informed on the same day of Benedict XVI’s funeral that he had to leave his residence at the Vatican monastery Mater Ecclesiae before February 1, the place where he had assisted the Pope Emeritus since the day of his resignation. As still nominal prefect of the Pontifical Household, Msgr. Ganswein is entitled to an apartment, at least for as long as he holds that office.
Meanwhile, the whole affaire surrounding Nient’altro che la verità only increases the already gigantic interest in the book, which will certainly soon see the light of day in most different languages. The literary agency of the work is giving itself the luxury of putting international publishers to bid at auction, to see who gets what is already a best seller and a ‘bomb’, a guaranteed sales success for whoever publishes it.
Compiled by Dominic Joseph