The Italian journalist Bruno Volpe has commentated on the most recent clarifications by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna about his predecessor, Hans-Herman Cardinal Groër (+2003)
Volpe is the producer of the famous Italian website, 'pontifex.roma.it".
On the end of march Cardinal Schönborn attacked the former Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano and implicated him in preventing an investigative commission on accusations against Cardinal Groër which then Cardinal Ratzinger was to have had undertaken.
Indeed, Volpe has brought "a few clarifications" on this situation.
He recalled on an activity of the Congregation of the Faith that occurred at Castle Laxenburg near Vienna, at the end of 1989.
Cardinal Ratzinger explained this opportunity to journalists, that the naming of Cardinal Groër as Archbishop of Vienna had been "very well considered".
Pope John Paul II named the Benedictine in July 1986 as Archbishop of Vienna and in June h1988 he made him Cardinal.
Volpe knows still more.
in March 1995 the supposed abuse-afflicted and socially maligned Joseph Hartman attacked the former Cardinal of Vienna in the scandal magazine 'profil'.
He accused the Cardinal of sexual abuse, which he was supposed to have committed in the years 1972 and 1976.
Volpe then explained that many defended Cardinal Groër. The journalist named the then Bishop of Sankt Polten, Msgr Kurt Krenn, the former Chairman of the 'Freedom Party', Jorg Haider, and the former Viennese Auxiliary Bishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn.
Volpe also made the comparison of "the attack against Groër with a Church persecution, which would be similar to the Nazi Regime."
Volpe points out, that Msgr Schönborn altered his tactics once Cardinal Groër had fallen from grace. He suddenly made aggressively critical statements in public.
The Guild of journalists: "Cardinal Schönborn has a line on the day, which stands in the best tradition of Viennese waltzers."
Because: "First Cardinal Groër was a victim of anti-Catholic Fascism, then he was accused and perhaps even discovered:
Where here the truth is, might the Bishop of Vienna explain. We will be very thankful and say God Bless you" - said Volpe.
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