"Although with the utmost respect for those who carried out the investigations, I cannot fail to reject with the utmost firmness some affirmations contained in the information of the GdF of Oristano and which sound like accusations not only against me, but also against the Pope and his collaborators , who are the Heads of Dicastery».
Thus Cardinal Angelo Becciu in a long spontaneous statement today in the 45th hearing of the Vatican trial on the management of the funds of the Secretariat of State and after Colonel Pasquale Pellecchia of the Gdf of Oristano provided excerpts from the personal papers of the deceased Msgr. Sergio Pintor, former bishop of Ozieri, collected in a "Confidential information note" in which he denounced "heavy interference" by the Holy See in the management of the diocese.
«These are not just any papers - said Becciu -, but personal reflections of the Prelate on facts pertaining to his episcopal government in Ozieri and in which, among others, high ecclesiastical personalities of the Roman Curia are involved. In the face of the exhibition of these papers, allow me to express disbelief and suffering ».
According to Becciu, these papers were to remain secret in the archives of the diocesan Curia and "I am sorry to point out - he said - that the niece of the bishop who handed over these documents to the tax police has failed in her duty as a Christian . Those papers were not his property, but the Church's and he insulted his uncle because here, moreover, there is the risk of damaging his memory with the parade of witnesses who will not fail to narrate, alas, where necessary, even unpleasant facts that occurred during his government".
Becciu contested that the resignation of Monsignor Pintor at the age of 75, far from "an unusual event", "would have been the result of maneuvers by a coalition of people such as myself, card. Piacenza, then Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, the Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and the Apostolic Nuncio in Italy at the time».
