From Fr Z's Blog
As a quondam but not-too-dedicated vaticanista, I watch now the goings on “oltratevere” (see… I can still bring the yiddish when I want to) in a combination of morbid fascination, as with glancing at road kill, and amusement, as with opera buffa.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Francis named Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò as Vice-Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, with a specific competency in the area of communication.
Remember Dario Viganò? Not Archbp. Viganò, but the other Viganò? This Viganò, Dario, doctored up a letter of Benedict XVI so as to give a false impression of approval of a series of books cobbled up in praise of Francis’ theological contributions. Dario was subsequently eviscerated in the press for his blatant mendacity, then sort of but not quite fired from his post at the Vatican comm’s office. Immediately a new position appeared, miraculously, and Dario was fired, laterally, into it. He has now been promoted.
This sort of thing, like road kill, is not the sort of thing you want to see, but you still look it. And, like opera buffa, all you can do is sit back in enjoy the impending disaster. It’s all sort of like an episode of Fawlty Towers, come to think about it.
In any event, the official Paradohymnodist here has once again come through.
This is to be sung to the aria “Largo al factotum” from Rossini’s Barber (not Rabbit) of Seville. You know the one… “Figaro… Figaro… Figaro…”. Remember that “the City… la Città” is most certainly, the Vatican City!
Dario Viganò is getting bigger now.
No, not that Viganò, who is in hiding now.
Pietro Viganò’s not the right Viganò.
Dario Viganò’s running the show.
He is vice chancellor, he is the answerer,
He’s a world traveler, a memo matador.
No one is fancier, or extravascular.
Salome danced for her reward you know.
He’s now factotum de la Città!
He’s now factotum de la Città!
De la Città! De la Città! The whole Città!
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