Vatican sources deny Bertone “crackdown” reports

Yesterday, I posted a link to Sandro Magister’s latest column, in which he reports that Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is cracking down on the release of statements from curial offices, insisting that any and all such documents must be approved by the Secretariat of State prior to publication. Magister stated that it was the publication of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace’s much-discussed document on financial reform that prompted this move from Bertone; he claimed that Bertone had “disowned” the document and that the cardinal had seen the text “only after its publication.”