Woman and minister of the pope: a rumor circulating forcefully in the Vatican – 05/02/2019

If it is true, it is a historic revolution in the Church. For the first time, the pope would appoint a woman to lead one of the most important dicasteries of the government of the Church. The version guarantees that Francisco will soon appoint the Italian professor Claudia Ciocca to head the strategic secretariat of the economy, which brings together all the economic and financial sectors of the Church. It even depends on the IOR, the Institute of Religious Works, nicknamed the "Bank of the Pope", cleansed by a past rich in scandals.

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Claudia Ciocca is currently Director of the Control and Supervision Section of the Ministry of the Economy. She is a professor at the Opus Dei Athenaeum in Rome, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and expectations are explained not only This would be the first time that a woman would rub shoulders with the prefects of congregations and presidents of the pontifical commissions., almost all cardinals, but because Ciotti should replace Cardinal George Pell, currently in an Australian prison, convicted for badually abusing two minors.

They have already begun to ignore objections. "He is too young for such a high position," some whisper in the Vatican, who do not dare say, "it's a woman". Others suggest that Opus Dei participated – and much – in the Vatican economy.

The repairs of the powerful areas of the Vatican do not stop there. To put an end to this appointment, there are people who object that the person who presented it to the Secretariat was Mgr Lucio Vallejo Balda, the Spanish Monitor already convicted in the process VatiLeaks 2 for having disclosed documents, with Francesca Chaouqui . These two people caused severe headaches to Pope Francis until their removal.

The "murmurs" of the Vatican even go so far as to record the opposition of the Secretary of StatePietro Parolin, number two of the Holy See.

At the moment, in the high peaks, everything is in silence, which is why it is difficult to badess the consistency of speculation.

It is certain that the pope must face "di petto" the appointment of the new prefect of the Ministry of Economy, discovered for two years following the scandal led by its owner, Cardinal Pell, who had asked permission of the pontiff and went to Australia to defend himself against the charges that eventually led him to prison. On March 12, he was convicted of five pedophile crimes against two minors in the 1990s.

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The journalist Luigi Bisignani, raised in Argentina and very close to Christian Democrat leader Giulio Andreotti, who died today, that he saw every day, He described Claudia Ciotti as "Zarina" of the Vatican's economy. The woman joined the Secretariat as an accountant at KPMG-Spain and was subsequently hired by the Holy See.

The case begins to spread the usual poisons of the controversial From time to time, the corridors of the Vatican tremble. Those who think that the ultra-conservative and traditionalist plot is opposing a new maneuver against the Argentine pope are under way.