2013年3月13日水曜日

アンジェロ・ソダノ枢機卿とマフィア


Papal conclave: anti-mafia police raid offices in diocese of frontrunner
Cardinals urged to overcome divisions at special mass shortly after detectives mount dawn raids in diocese of Angelo Scola
John Hooper and Lizzy Davies in Vatican City
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 March 2013 07.22 EDT




Roman Catholic cardinals have been urged to overcome divisions at a special mass ahead of the papal conclave, just hours after anti-mafia investigators carried out a string of raids in the diocese of the leading candidate.

In a homily before thousands of pilgrims and the most senior figures in the church, Angelo Sodano, the dean of the college of cardinals, made a last-ditch attempt to banish infighting, as he extolled the virtues of unity amid diversity.

But even as preparations for the mass were being made, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan – and reportedly the hot favourite to be the next pope – suffered a blow.

Anti-mafia detectives swooped on homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in Lombardy, the region around Milan, and elsewhere. A statement said the dawn raids were part of an investigation into "corruption linked to tenders by, and supplies to, hospitals".

Healthcare in Lombardy is the principal responsibility of the regional administration, which for the past 18 years has been run by Roberto Formigoni, a childhood friend of Scola and the leading political representative of the Communion and Liberation fellowship. Until recently, Scola was seen as the conservative group's most distinguished ecclesiastical spokesman.

But he has progressively loosened his ties to Communion and Liberation, and in early 2012 publicly rebuked the movement after its leader was found to have written to Pope Benedict, implicitly criticising the cardinal's liberal predecessors in the Milan archdiocese.

The regional administration headed by Formigoni – a member of Silvio Berlusconi's party – collapsed last October amid a welter of accusations regarding alleged corruption and misconduct. The final blow came when one of his regional ministers was arrested, accused of buying votes from the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia.

Formigoni himself is a formal suspect in an investigation into corruption and conspiracy. He denies the accusations.

Among those arrested on Tuesday was Massimo Guarischi, who in 2009 was given a five-year jail sentence after being convicted of conspiracy and auction-rigging. Guarischi is said to have organised expensive holidays for Formigoni that are central to the investigation into the former governor's affairs.

Scola, who has headed the Milan archdiocese since 2011, is regarded as the champion of a largely non-Italian faction that is challenging the entrenched power of the Vatican cardinals. He was close to the last pope, whose household was run by women members of Communion and Liberation.

He entered the conclave as favourite after the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported that his supporters were confident he had the support of up to 50 of the 115 cardinal-electors.

But Scola's candidacy has been overshadowed by his past links to a movement that has been linked with pervasive sleaze in Lombardy. By the time Formigoni dissolved the regional assembly last year, 13 members of the governing majority were under investigation, suspected of offences ranging from taking bribes to incitement to violence.

Formigoni belongs to the Memores Domini, a core group of Communion and Liberation members pledged to live by the values of fraternal love, obedience and poverty.

At the pre-conclave mass in St Peter's basilica in Rome, Sodano called on the faithful and electors to overcome divisions and unite behind the next pope.

"Each of us is … called to co-operate with the successor of Peter, the visible foundation of such an ecclesial unity," he said, quoting St Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

The basilica erupted in applause when Sodano, who is 85 and therefore not eligible to vote in the conclave, paid tribute to the "brilliant" leadership of Benedict XVI.

"At the same time today, we implore the Lord, that through the pastoral solicitude of the cardinal fathers, he may soon grant another good shepherd to his holy church," he said.

In his homily, Sodano, who is seen as representing the "old guard" of the Vatican, stressed the pastoral and charitable role of the papacy, amid warnings from many that Benedict's successor should primarily be a good manager capable of reforming the troubled Roman curia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/12/cardinals-overcome-divisions-conclave-pope

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▼ローマ法王:バチカン内紛、後継選びに影響も

2013年02月15日 18時22分(最終更新 02月15日 20時56分) 毎日新聞
 【ローマ福島良典】退位を表明したばかりのローマ法王ベネディクト16世(85)が「お膝元」であるバチカン(ローマ法王庁)の内部対立をいさめ、キリスト教カトリック界に波紋を広げている。専門家の間では、法王庁を舞台に展開されてきたイタリア人枢機卿間の権力闘争を指しているとの見方が有力だ。内紛の根深さが退位理由の一つとの観測も浮上しており、3月中旬の次期法王選びにも影響を与えそうだ。

 法王は13日にバチカンのサンピエトロ大聖堂でキリストの受難をしのぶ「灰の水曜日」のミサをささげた際、「教会の一体性を損なう罪」「教会内の分裂」に警鐘を鳴らし、「自己中心主義と内部対立」を克服するよう呼びかけた。

 バチカン日刊機関紙オッセルバトーレ・ロマーノの副編集長を長年務めたジャン・フランコ・スビデルコスキー氏(76)は14日、毎日新聞の取材に、法王の批判は法王庁国務長官(首相)のタルチジオ・ベルトーネ枢機卿(78)と、前国務長官のアンジェロ・ソダーノ首席枢機卿(85)の対立に向けられていると見方を示した。

 国務省は法王庁の最高行政機関で、法王を補佐し、バチカン統治にあたる。ソダーノ氏は1991年から前法王ヨハネ・パウロ2世の懐刀として約15年間、国務長官を務めた。代わって2006年9月に長官に就任したベルトーネ氏は国務省からソダーノ氏に近い人物を追放したという。

 ベルトーネ氏に対しては近年、スキャンダルへの対応のまずさなどに不満を抱く聖職者から辞任を求める声が出ていた。昨年、法王あての内部告発文書が漏えいした事件は、反感を抱くグループによる「ベルトーネ氏追い落とし」が狙いではないかとの観測が流れた。

 ベルトーネ、ソダーノ両氏は3月中旬の法王選挙会議(コンクラーベ)に向けカギを握る人物でもある。ベルトーネ氏は法王空位期間を取り仕切る「カメルレンゴ」として法王代理を務め、ソダーノ氏は枢機卿団の議長としてコンクラーベの準備にあたる。

 イタリア紙レプブリカによると、両氏は法王選挙権のある有力枢機卿との接触を始めているという。イタリア人の後継候補として名前が取りざたされているイタリア司教協議会会長のアンジェロ・バニャスコ・ジェノバ大司教(70)はベルトーネ氏と対立していることで知られている。

イタリア紙コリエレ・デラ・セラは内部対立を批判した法王発言について「コンクラーベに向けたメッセージ」と解釈しており、法王はイタリア人枢機卿間の仲たがいに苦言を呈した形だ。

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