Becciu appeared to be an untouchable favorite of the pope, and there is little indication that this situation would have changed if an internal Vatican report on investigations into Becciu’s investments hadn’t been leaked to the most eminent of Vaticanista exposé journalists, Emiliano Fittipaldi of L’Espresso.Ĭardinal Becciu case forced into the light by leak of documents And he operated with a very clear enjoyment of impunity from both the pontiff and from his immediate superior Pietro Parolin.ĭespite Becciu’s long public record of troubling and suspicious behavior, Pope Francis did not admonish him nor remove him from his position, but actually made him a cardinal in 2018 and appointed him as Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. His blatant attacks and obstruction against Vatican auditors, in coordination with Vatican prosecutors, were carried out in broad daylight by people who answered directly to Pope Francis. But that may be obscuring the more significant and under-reported aspect of Holy See’s corruption problem, and that is the apparent involvement of Pope Francis himself, as well as numerous favored subordinates whose misbehavior and checkered pasts seem to have been completely overlooked.Ĭardinal Becciu himself functioned for many years as a case in point. Click here for part one.Ĭardinal Angelo Becciu’s eight-year tenure in the Vatican Secretariat of State has left a trail of scandal and moral wreckage that makes for sensational headlines. It’s challenging to take back the language again and put down the shame, but it feels so good and right.Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. This has been very painful and shameful for me for many years. I stopped speaking Sami and did not want to deal with these identity issues. I was not ‘Sami enough’ but also not completely ‘Norwegian’.
My Sami Nesseby dialect was not ‘correct’ and my family are not reindeer herders. But when I was growing up, I got comments, and finally felt that I was not ‘Sami enough’. Mum who has always been working to get me to grow up with Sami as my mother tongue and be proud that I am Sami. Extra special is that I wrote the text together with Mum. In a post on social media, Agnete revealed the difficulty she’s had connecting with her Sámi culture over the years: Sung in the Sámi language, it’s an atmospheric piano ballad that Agnete delivers beautifully. Norway’s Eurovision 2016 singer recently rekindled the bond with her Sámi culture by releasing the new song “Linna Giella”. In the lyrics, Sanja, Ivana and Ksenija are having a hard time seeing the person they have feelings for going out with another woman and they wish it could be them: “When I saw you with her / It kept getting on my nerves / I was embarrassed for myself / I was getting high off you as if off a drug / Oh if you were only le-le-le-legal”.īorn in the municipality of Nesseby, Agnete is an ethnic Sámi and the daughter of Sámi children’s author Signe Iversen. The first of these is “Legalan”, which is in line with what we expect from the Serbian trio – a catchy pop banger.
In fact, they’ve given us a double dose of new music this week by releasing two brand new songs at the same time. Note: We’ll be featuring the new festive-themed songs from Johnny Logan, Didrik Solli-Tangen and others in a separate article during the run-up to Christmas. New music from Eurovision artists: 2021 | Week 46 Here is our latest weekly roundup with a selection of just some of the songs and music videos released recently by Eurovision stars. But that doesn’t mean we forget about the artists from past contests.Ĭontrary to the commonly perpetuated myth about the song contest killing careers, we’re always thrilled to report that singers associated with Eurovision are thriving. Over the course of the next few months, we will all fall in and out of love with scores of new national final and Eurovision entries. The Eurovision 2022 season is slowly beginning to heat up.
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