Cardinal Parolin: Vatileaks has caused a "heavy atmosphere"

(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s Secretary of State said the “Vatileaks” case has caused a “heavy atmosphere,” and called some press reports on the case “very emotional, if not hysterical.”

“I do not believe these polemics can create a tranquil atmosphere,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin told Vatican Radio.

“Indeed, it creates a heavy atmosphere,” he said. “If we look at press, we see unreasonable attacks with little meaning, that are ill-conceived and very emotional, if not hysterical.”

However, Cardinal Parolin said “God can write straight with crooked lines,” and said although the leaking of Vatican documents is “an attack on the Church,”  the situation can be “turned to the good” if welcomed with a “spirit of conversion.”

Cardinal Parolin reiterated the theme of Pope Francis’ Angelus message from last Sunday: The reforms of the Vatican will continue.

“Changing is always difficult because we are tempted to continue in the comfort of our daily hustle and bustle,” he said. “We have to overcome, in this sense, the resistance - defining it as psychological is not enough, as pathological is too much – the resistance that is there.”

The Cardinal said this must be addressed in a “constructive manner” so that they can be transformative.

“I think this is the key to this affair,” Cardinal Parolin said, “to transform what may be the natural resistance in the face of change into the instruments of reform. And everyone has this desire to change for the better, and this betterment is what Pope Francis himself asks of the Curia.”

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