Five relatives of Benedict XVI heirs of money saved and hidden by the late retired pope your bank accounts. Revelation, which is part of the uninterrupted flow, leaks This news about the German, which has been on the agenda since his death last December, was made by journalist Franca Giansoldati, a Vatican member of the Roman newspaper ‘Il Messaggero’.
Giansoldati, a chronicler well-connected in Vatican circles associated with that papacy, quoted: Fountain Georg Gänswein, historical secretary to Benedict XVI, recently Regensburg, Markt am Inn and Pentling and served on Sunday a rite in memory of the deceased.
Gänswein, the executor of Joseph Ratzinger’s estate, said it was during these visits that the deceased “relatives unknown in the German country and their would integrate the hereditary line. Something that implies that they would have to be asked if they wanted to inherit the money that Benedict XVI left behind.
toxic legacy
The reason is that the German Pope did not leave any instructions on this issue. “In the beginning only two cousins alive and instead, there are five total relative”, Gänswein revealed. “Since Benedict did not identify an heir Specifically, both Vatican and Italian laws now apply (…) so I will have to write “Go ask these cousins if they want to accept the inheritance,” he added.
it might be a wise decision do not accept. This is because, as Vatican member Gian Luigi Vecchi explains, “their be involved in a lawsuit 16. Compensation action brought against Benedict for not being involved in a lawsuit in Germany. pedophile priest While Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982″.
Yes, Benedict XVI left indications for his famous. book and note collectionssome will stay in the Vatican, and some will go to some centers of the Joseph Ratzinger Vatican Foundation, which was established in 2010. personal belongings reportedly distributed among his aides, secretaries, disciples, parish priests, and friends. an embroidered apron and, for example, that Benedict XVI used during his celebrations was delivered to the parish of Santa Maria de la Consolación in Rome this week.
destroyed cards
“Other personal items were included, from watches to pens, from paintings to liturgical furniture. a meticulously compiled list Before he died by Benedict XVI”, Gänswein stated.
Also, Ratzinger’s former secretary explained: destroyed private letters of the deceased. “I thought it was a sin to destroy these exchanges, some important ones. Before his death i talked to him about it but he said there is no sure way out. was determined and that’s why I did it,” he explained. Ganswein.