The Scotsman

Vatican media chief resigns over letter scandal

- By NICOLE WINFIELD

The head of the Vatican’s communicat­ions department has resigned over a scandal about a letter from the retired pope that he mischaract­erised in public and then had digitally manipulate­d in a photograph sent to the media.

The Vatican said Pope Francis had accepted the resignatio­n of Monsignor Dario Vigano on Wednesday and named his deputy, Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz, to run the Secretaria­t for Communicat­ions.

The so-called “Lettergate” erupted last week after Monsignor Vigano read aloudparto­faprivatel­etter from retired Pope Benedict XVI at a book launch for a Vatican-published, 11-volume set of books about Francis’s theology.

Monsignor Vigano said his behaviour, despite his intentions, had destabilis­ed communicat­ions reform.

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