![]() After practicing law for 20 months in Florence, South Carolina (10 miles east of Timmonsville), he yearned for adventure in the diplomatic service in Washington, DC. He then graduated from the University of South Carolina's law school in 1925 and passed the bar. He attended the University of South Carolina and joined a fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Order. He was also popular, having been elected captain of his high school military company, and he played football and baseball in Timmonsville. In his 1920 high school yearbook, Melvin was said to be “charming and athletic with his love of horses” he was said to be a “crack shot,” and he later became an avid gun collector. He was devoted to all his sisters, especially my mother, Callie Mims or “Cal,” who was born in 1899. Melvin was born in 1903 in the small town of Timmonsville, South Carolina, with a family of six sisters and two brothers. Defenders of Gotti Tedeschi see him as trying to improve the transparency of the Vatican finances, while they see Bertone as trying to impede his efforts.Melvin Purvis a few weeks after the capture of Pretty Boy Floyd, 1934. That clash has played out most visibly in the controversy over the Vatican bank, which has struggled to comply with international anti-money-laundering standards. Vatican observers say that many of the leaked documents are aimed at undermining the cardinal’s influence. Many critics, including some inside the Vatican, see him as a poor administrator who as the Vatican’s CEO has struggled to manage the scandal-ridden papacy of a German intellectual with little interest in day-to-day affairs of state. Bertone has emerged as a central, contentious figure in the VatiLeaks drama. The New York Times’ Rachel Donadio homes in on Cardinal Bertone. Instead the documents that have surfaced would have been handled by Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, or processed by the pope’s secretaries, who would have briefed him but not necessarily given him the paperwork. The Roman Curia is a fine-tuned machine, and the pope is known to be much more interested in doctrinal issues than the day-to-day business of the Holy See. ![]() Gabriele, as the primary papal servant, would have had unhindered access to the pope’s personal desk and papers, but sources close to the Vatican say most of the documents that have been leaked to the press over the last year probably never crossed the papal desk at all. So it’s become everyone against everyone.”Īt the Daily Beast, Barbie Latzie Nadeau is among those doubting the butler’s guilt. And those who think that this is the time to step forward. And those who think that Benedict XVI is too weak to lead the Church. Those doing it are acting to protect the Pope.” He added: “There are those opposed to the Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone. “It’s open warfare, with everyone against everyone else. Vatican intelligence has security systems more advanced than anything the CIA has but cardinals are still in the habit of writing their messages by hand and dictating them. ![]() “The valet is just a delivery boy that somebody wants to set up. “There’s a group of us: the real brains behind it are cardinals, then there are monsignors, secretaries, small fry,” the informer said. Nick Pisa, The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Rome, describes a situation of shadow warfare and internecine leaking in which even the princes of the church, the cardinals, are involved: Several Italian newspapers carried an interview with an anonymous whistle-blower who explained why the documents were being leaked. Think the Borgias, rather than John XXIII, as the role model. “The Roman Curia has always been a vipers’ nest,” is the view of Vittorio Messori, another historian. In other words, just business as usual at the Holy See. Or, as Alberto Melloni, a church historian puts it in a La Stampa op-ed, “This is a strategy of tension, an orgy of vendettas and pre-emptive vendettas that has now spun out of the control of those who thought they could orchestrate it.” ![]() Some say this may be because the paper itself has been an instrument in a power struggle involving reciprocal mud-slinging between allies and enemies of Cardinal Bertone. The Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has ignored the story, notes the South Atlantic news agency MercoPress. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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