On July 8, 2017, La Repubblica, one of the most popular newspapers in Italy, often covering the Vatican for Italians, published an article reprinted by everyone: Scalfari intervista Francesco: "Il mio grido al G20 sui migranti".
A brief retelling of the article boils down to the Pope's official concern about the outcome of the G20 summit. According to La Repubblica, Francis is worried about the possibility of "very dangerous alliances between powers that have a distorted view of the world." The Pope listed America, Russia, China, North Korea and Syria as powers.
These are the dry results of the interview of Pope Francis, which the founder and co-owner of the newspaper, known throughout Italy, the master of journalism Eugenio Scalfari, made for the newspaper. However, this interview had other results, which seem to be known only to other co-owners of the publication, who are on friendly terms with the top managers of the publication, and most likely their family members. For some reason, La Repubblica did not write about this. Nevertheless, the world today is global, the earth is full of rumors and all that. But first things first.
“Last Thursday, that is, the day before yesterday, Pope Francis called me,” writes Eugenio Scalfari
“It was about noon and I was in the newspaper when the phone rang and the voice of His Eminence greeted me. I recognized him immediately …..
… I rushed home and three quarters of an hour later I was in the little living room of Santa Marta. Dad arrived a minute later. We embraced, and then, sitting facing each other, we began to exchange ideas, feelings, analysis of what is happening in the Church, and in the world….
…It was too late. Francis brought me two books describing his history before the conclave, as well as some of his writings. The books are thick, several hundred pages long. We hug again …
…. We enter the elevator, which brings us to the door of Santa Marta, where the Swiss guard is constantly on duty at the entrance …..
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…. My car is at the front of the porch. My driver gets out to greet Dad and tries to help me get into the car. Dad invites him to get behind the wheel and turn on the engine, after which he supports me and helps me get into the car, holding the door open.
When I'm inside, he closes the door and takes a step, waving goodbye to us until we hide around the corner. And I, - I confess: my face is wet with tears of emotion.
These are excerpts from an article by Mr. Eugenio Scalfari, which describes the main moments of his meeting in Pope Francis, testifying to the long-standing friendship and trusting relationship between the two people. That is, the Pope may well say to Mr. Scalfari something that he will not even say to his chief cardinals.
And so, as sources in the editorial office of La Repubblica tell us, after an interview with Mr. Scalfari, several top managers were urgently summoned to his office, from where they returned in some excitement, began to gallop across all floors of the editorial office and give everyone valuable instructions for the next two months: which documents there, what kind of documents here, why it's not that and all that.
Employees of La Repubblica were very puzzled by such strange behavior of the management and many had a bad suspicion that in the fall the newspaper would change its owner and managers were instructed to urgently put things in order. However, the staff's suspicions were not confirmed. It looks like things will be much, much worse.
As the staff of La Repubblica managed to find out, the entire top of the publication (the owners of the official and some of those who are especially close to them) one after the other give the dismissal to the dismayed servants and urgently leave Italy, leaving in an unknown direction, taking family members and even dogs with them.
According to the testimonies of the dismissed housekeepers, who willingly share their indignations with curious journalists, some of the owners flew to New Zealand, where some real estate was bought from them several years ago and which the owners constantly managed by telephone. According to the servants, in New Zealand the owners were building something big.
Bringing together updated gossip and various rumors circulating in the editorial office for a long time, some employees believe that Pope Francis told his friend Mr. Scalfari something very confidential, highly secret and extremely important.
In all likelihood, it was either about the exact date of the start of the Third World War, which the Pope definitely knows about through his Masonic channels, or about some kind of global mega-catastrophe like the eruption of the Phlegrean Fields supervolcano.
Most likely, he did not tell his old friend everything, but he definitely hinted that it was time to urgently get away with his feet and sit out for about two months. And then the above-described chain of events began: La Repubblica was put on autopilot mode, most of the servants were fired, and the villas were closed with a key. It looks like the guys from the Pope learned something and decided somewhere far to wait out what is to come.