by Anura Guruge
on April 11, 2024
I cracked up laughing when I saw this. Being appointed a nuncio isn’t always a good thing. It all depends on what COUNTRY you are assigned.
No guarantee that Ganswein will be sent to any SWANKY posts such as the U.S., France, Australia, or even Japan. China wouldn’t be too bad either. But, the pope could also send him to a war zone, a country in economic despair or outer-mongolia.
Basically what the pope has done is yank Ganswein out of the COMFORT of being in Germany. Now, as a nuncio, he can send him to Ukraine, Zambia or Nicaragua. Ganswein is NOT going to be happy.
Just a few days ago I wrote (in my latest book) that one of the most effective punishments that a pope can deal a cardinal is to make him ‘Nuncio to Outer Mongolia‘. And then, this, today. LoL.
Francis, in his dotage, is cranky. Aren’t people calling him vindictive?
In his recent spate of interviews he made clear that Ganswein was a thorn in his side. So, now he is going to settle scores.
What we have to now watch for is WHERE will be send Ganswein.
It will be funny.
Pretty clever move by the pope. LoL.
Like Archbishop Eterovic,he spent years in a minor dicastery leadership…then failed to take the upward step to the cardinalate,while a nunciature is a downward step.
Ah?
Eterovic was Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops,Gaenswein Prefect of the Papal Household…positions historically not meriting the cardinalate in themselves,but usually a springboard to it at their next appointment,like the Sostituto in the Secretary of State’s Office…
but not in their case.