It was only a matter of time. Pope Francis has finally lost his patience and gotten rid of Arch-bishop Georg Ganswein as prefect of the Papal Household.
According to German weekly Die Tagespost, the Pope put the 63-year-old on “indefinite administrative leave.”
He did so, the paper said, because of the German prefect’s involvement in a controversial book that Benedict XVI co-authored with Cardinal Robert Sarah. It was a slim volume that most people saw as a warning to Francis that he dare not even consider allowing the ordination of married priests.
Ganswein, who lives with Benedict and is his long-time personal secretary, was seen – rightly or wrongly – as the man ultimately responsible for dragging the retired Pope into the book project.
