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We will not act against the Vatican "
lunch with Berlusconi Bertone work because the Pope can go to Moscow
The meeting for the new cardinal Bagnasco confirms the absence of frost with the IEC
Marco Ansaldo
VATICAN CITY - "Dear Ambassador, she now leaves his position to represent Italy at the Holy See to go to Moscow, where my friend Vladimir Putin. I will be criticized for this report. They accuse me. Attack me. But they do not understand that my real goal is to bring Russia into a Western context. And thanks to this special relationship I'm also working with the Orthodox Patriarch Kirill because they pave the way for the Pope can go one day in Moscow. "
have passed the 14 at the Palazzo Borromeo, home of the Italian delegation at the Vatican, when the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is addressed to Ambassador Antonio Zanardi Landi, host and organizer. Middle government is deployed on the long table overlooking the great room. There are letters, Bonaiuti, Frattini, Tremonti, Alfano, Bondi, Fazio, Lease, Romans, Gelmini. There is also the advisor for international policy of the prime minister, the deputy of the PDL, Valentino Valentini, a man of Mr Berlusconi's connection with Russia. And on the other side of the table the guests are the secretary of state, Tarcisio Bertone, and 9 Italians out of the 10 new cardinals from the recent consistory in which Benedict XVI has created 24 cardinals.
palpable waiting for an event which, if it's a stage now customary after every Sacred College (Prodi was to attend in 2007), falls a few days from now to the decisive vote of confidence on 14 December for the government, with a President of the Council seeking support authoritative. A delicate moment, which the Vatican Secretariat of State has responded positively. For the Cardinals
newly appointed Prime Minister has congratulated and gave a pectoral cross. And to all expressed optimism for the upcoming transition in the classroom, hoping to be able to get the required numbers. "For my part - has secured the first to remember the years spent by the Salesians (looking Bertone that belongs to that order) - will not be anything against the Vatican. " And after a few sentences of the undersecretary Gianni Letta, the collaborator of the Pope responded by thanking the government of having carried out a policy in favor of the Church. With journalists Bertone was then mocked ("it was just a courtesy lunch, I was a guest, please pray for Italy and for the future of every country with which we report because the problem affects the whole world, not only 'Italy').
were part of the delegation of the Church, the cardinals Ravasi, Romeo, De Paolis, Sardis, Amato, Piacenza, Monterisi, Sgreccia and Bartoloni. Absent from Baldelli. Stood rather the absence of the chairman of the bishops, Angelo Bagnasco, who had a previous commitment to Genoa, where his archdiocese takes a lot. In its place, the general secretary of the Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Mariano Crusade.
E 'from rest of the time that the Italian bishops do not hide bad mood to Berlusconi. Their daily reference, events, in an editorial the other day it was deployed against the early voting if it were another majority in Parliament. Some people look at later. Tremonti (who yesterday was spent on the need to support the family), is highly respected. Teases the idea of \u200b\u200ban Italian EPP proposed by Formigoni. The entrance to the UDC in the majority offer some reassurance. But not convinced by the prospect of a centrist party with the 'secular' Fini.
exiting the building tight-lipped, however, for the cardinals. "Less fights and shock us, the better," a later comment of the cardinals who attended the luncheon. "The people in government should pursue the common good, not that of his party," added another. In the halls where, in a few days, Zanardi Landi will be replaced by the new Greek Ambassador Francis, Berlusconi finally let go on a chair: "If not then I will get the trust - said jokingly - that will mean I'll rest."
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