Just over a year after this exit, Domenico Giani, formerly believed to be one of the most powerful people in the Vatican, has given an interview offering details as to his current career path and his thoughts on papal reform.
In the interview, published in Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian bishops, on Jan. 6, the former head of the Vatican police said that when he was first asked to enter service to the Holy See, he was told that “it was not my personal service by a vocation, a call,” which also extended to his family. Speaking of his unexpected resignation last fall, Giani said the move “caused pain” for him and his family but insisted that it did not alter his experience working in the Vatican Gendarme Corps, and nor did it take away “the gratitude for the Popes we have served: St John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis.”
“I remain deeply attached to the Church and I am a man of institutions,” he said.