Francis used an interview with LaNacion.com.ar to tell Archbishop Gänswein that he didn't want him – who is still the Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household - in the Vatican.
Francis let the world know that he ordered Gänswein "to return to Germany" or stay in Italy, outside the Vatican.
Even IlSismografo asks if there are any "very serious reasons" that justify Francis' behaviour in leaving Gänswein hanging in the air at the age of 66.
The portal accuses Francis of turning the affair into a tragicomedy, “Will anyone in the Vatican have understood that this spectacle is ruinous for the Catholic world?”
SilereNonPossum.it notes that Francis who is famous for being “innovative” can't find a task for Gänswein since he doesn't want him in the Papal Household.
I read a VERY interesting article about a Colombian Franciscan nun who experienced a long vision of Pope Benedict XVI who appeared to her and spoke to her at length about his pontificate, and the people who were against him......including Ganswein. After having read that testament from Pope Benedict XVI, who the nun said looked much the same but very healthy and robust, I totally believe it. There were statements in which no person, however depraved or scheming, could ever fake. In the statement, copied down by the nun as Benedict spoke, Benedict XVI knew that Ganswein had NEVER truely been his friend, or someone he trusted 100%. INstead, he knew that Ganswein was playing both sides, Benedict's own side, and also that of those who were against him during his pontificate, and also siding with Francis while pretending to serve Benedict. After reading that testimony of Benedict XVI now enjoying the joy of Heaven, where He said he says Mass (the Tridentine Latin Mass) daily, I 've changed my opinion of Ganswein, and think he was a two-faced snake who served two Popes, playing one off against the other. He was useful to both. I think that Francis, knowing that Ganswein is this kind of two-faced person, like Benedict XVI does not trust him either, and is reluctant to give him any Vatican or major position.
Sorry, but that article is very doubtful, the fact that she says that under the secret of confession pope francis says certain things to pope benedict is somewhat strange since everything under the secret of confession is kept secret and forgotten. That is always what the Tradition has thought us. That in itself makes this colombian nun story trully doubful. Its like if God reveals what you said in your last confession... Tradition says whats said is forgotten in Gods Mercy... even at the end of times, on judgement day, what is said under confession can't come back.
Perhaps, but I would be willing to believe her, because so much of it is believable and accurate. I would believe this story before I would believe anything that came from the Vatican of Francis' mouth, or Ganswein.
I agree with Fra Yaram. I want to believe it because it makes sense in a way, but the seal of the confessional is not merely for this lifetime, for for eternity.
@Strong and Steadfast , To me it isn't my thoughts that i consider but what the church has thought us with the transmission of Faith from our Tradition. I'd have to research what the church has always tought us about confession. My understanding was that God forgives because of Christ sacrifice on the cross, and because through his ressurection each and everyone of us is redeemed so long as we carry our cross which signifies the consequences of our sins that were forgotten. God doesn't forget our sins in a way that he wont remember our life struggles and weakenesses but he forgives the sins we did. Forgives in latin means to give completely without reservation. God takes your sin and gives his life completely so that each act during your day when done in the love of the Holy Spirit consumes you a little more in Christs himself. Litterally making you and alter-christi.
Francis will need all the friends he can get pretty soon, when he is dying. Rather than alienating good prelates like Archbishop Ganswein, and other very good men, he should be happy they remain ( rather illogically) loyal to and supportive of him. Because so many, many faithful Catholic hate him, Francis will need to have some "friends" in his final days coming soon.