Who is Pietro Parolin, cardinal and diplomat

Pietro Parolin He was born in Schiavon, in the province of Vicenza, on January 17, 1955 1983.

Hiring in the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See in 1986, he provided his work at the Pontifical representatives in Nigeria and Mexico and, for seventeen years, in the section for relations with the States of the Secretariat of State, then becoming a Undersecretary between 2002 and 2009 Holiness Pope Francis, who also aggregated to the Cardinal College in the Contestory of 22 February 2014.

Because papable

This biography has all the salient data, but only partially tells the life of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the first of the Paprobili, the name that was made immediately after the death of Pope Francis. It is a name of continuity, with Bergoglio there was confidence and collaboration, and also of a name of compromise: too progressive for conservatives, too conservative for progressives. If there is no convergence on other names, his could be the one capable of putting everyone in agreement.

The family

His vocation was early. The deeply religious family. “Mom had confided to me that she fell in love with her way of praying in this church, things that no longer happen today,” he told Corriere della Sera talking about the parents. He told her his mother, Ada, teacher, who died a few months ago. The Cardinal son celebrated the funeral in Schiavon where he says he was Don Pietro for everyone: “Thanks mom, on your knees we learned about the Gospel”. Father Luigi had a hardware store. He died in a road accident in 1965, when his son was ten years old. He already played to say mass on the balcony already at six years old, at 14 he entered the seminary, then classical maturity and studies in philosophy and theology.

Diplomacy

From that country a few kilometers from Vicenza has come to be the man of the agreements between the Holy See and China who, with all of Asia, for Pope Francis “is the future of the Church”. The “provisional agreement” between the Holy See and Beijing on the appointment of the bishops was signed on September 22, 2018 and since then renewed. His also the mediation between the USA and Cuba in 2014 with the agreement for the end of the embargo.

Fake news

The Holy See denied news that had been made around the Cardinal Pietro Parolin: an alleged medical intervention for the Secretary of State who in reality was not during the congregation of last Wednesday. This is also a sign that the conclave is getting closer. We try to put out one of the most accredited to the papacy by making illustrations on his health conditions, questioning his ability to lead the Church, and highlighting those had at the time of the appointment as secretary of state, a problem with the pancreas resolved.

To put around these voices could have been American conservative sectors or even Becciu supporters excluded from the Conclave after Parolin presented two letters of Pope Francis who confirmed the position on Becciu private in 2020 of the rights of the cardinalate, for the involvement, which denies, in the bad management of Vatican funds.