The Lombards invade Rome once again as two Milanese are named to important positions in the Roman Curia. Several sources (including and in this Sunday's edition Il Giornale) affirm that Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi current Prefect of the Ambrosian Library of the Archdiocese of Milan will soon be named President of the Pontifical Council for grow (a cardinalatial position) - maybe as soon as tomorrow as Pope Benedict returns from Loreto (see our posts of and ). Another Milanese. Monsignor Vincenzo di Mauro special assign of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (the Apsa) will be named Secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. former Vice-Prefect of the same Ambrosian Library recently started his activities as Vatican Librarian and Archivist (another cardinalatial position) - the former Librarian and Archivist. Cardinal Tauran. .
« Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti was almost unknown to the Catholics of Italy let alone Catholics elsewhere when as a compromise candidate he was elected to the head of St. Peter in February 1922. From the quiet of the Vatican Library of which he became Prefect in 1914 he had been sent as Apostolic Visitor (later Papal Nuncio) to war-torn Poland. He had been guard of Milan—come which he was born of peasant stock—for less than a year. He had been appointed Cardinal-Archbishop by Benedict XV over the objections of those who held that Monsignor Ratti was no preacher. Mountain Climber. Indeed during the first 30-odd years of his priesthood in which he was chaplain to a convent teacher in a seminary and Prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Achille Ratti had distinguished himself from the average Italian parroco or parish priest chiefly in being a skilled mountain climber...»http://www time com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760766-1,00 html
Doesn't this Ravasi guy go with some terrible rumors that he is a radical liberal? Fortunatly He's 65. But I would not liek to see Pope Benedict XVI starting to put people with such horrible reputation in Vatican posts. Granted the Pontifical Council for Culture is really no big broach of a job.. but comfort these people should be screened out. Just remember all the harm the radical liberal Lombard/Milanese crowd of bishops and priests under Paul VI did. We're comfort suffering from the alter.
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