It is strongly rumoured that the current Papal Nuncio to Ireland,
Giuseppe Leanza, who has been recalled to Rome for "consulations", is to be shifted by the Vatican to the Czech Republic.
This may not be as dramatic as it seems as
(i) the Vatican will need some considerable help in crafting its reply to the recent "request" from the Irish Government for an explanation of why it obstructed Government Commission Enquiries into clerical child sex abuse, and why it was apparently involved in a cover up of these practices over the years
(ii) Archbishop Leanza was due to finish his term as Nuncio to Ireland in mid-2011 anyway
(iii) Leanza may stay long enough in the job to return to Dublin and present the Vatican's reply in person to the Tánaiste
Nevertheless, Leanza's removal will create a vacancy at Nuncio level, and who better to fill it than
Fr. Vincent Twomey. Fr. Vincent has been calling for various Episcopal resignations over the last while, but here is a chance to aim higher, with this unique vacancy arising at a propitious moment.
Why Fr. Twomey?
(i) He is a former student of Joseph Ratzinger
(ii) He defends his former mentor at every turn
(iii) He has written profusely and prolifically on Benedict XVI
(v) He has the gravitas
(vi) He is both e-literate and e-humble, having downgraded his earlier pontifical style website to one more in keeping with the workmanlike requirements of the next Nuncio. And let's hope, for his sake, that there will be one, even if he has to be subsequently run out of town
Gaudium Magnum
