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February 5, 2020 - The news comes from Germany: Pope Francis would have granted an indefinite permit to the prefect of the Pontifical House, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein. To write it is the German newspaper Die Tagespost.

Benedict XVI's private secretary, for the newspaper, would remain in office as head of the prefecture.

Archbishop Gaenswein was not present at the general audience today and was not present during the private audience of Pope Francis with the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, and the new Argentine president Alberto Fernandez.

An absence that the Vatican hastens to explain as "ordinary". The absence of Msgr. Georg Gaenswein during "certain audiences" of the Pope "in recent weeks", is due to an "ordinary redistribution of the various duties and functions of the Prefect of the Pontifical House", which, as is known, "also covers the role of Special Secretary of the Pope emeritus "Benedict XVI:

The answer to the questions of the journalists comes from the Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.

The conservative German press had written that Msgr. Gaenswein had been "dismissed" indefinitely following the mess of Cardinal Robert Sarah's book with Benedict XVI on priestly celibacy.