Cardinal Bertone to be next Vatican Secretary of State?

Rocco says so:

OK, so it's basically a fait accompli -- or so it seems -- that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Genoa, Cardinal Ratzinger's former CDF secretary, will succeed Cardinal Angelo Sodano as Secretary of State.

So much for Papa Ratzi's cred as a technocrat. Then again, desperate times call for desperate measures.The only question, it seems, is when. Four cardinals briefed that the appointment was coming this past Saturday, the 10th. It didn't, which has led several people to simply give up and not think about it anymore. [More...]

More Bertone Links:

• Cardinal Bertone's C-H Page.
• Cardinal Bertone's Wikipedia Page.
• Biography at catholic-pages.com
• Tarcisio Bertone, Salesian Cardinal