The one raised by Pietro Orlandi with his ambiguous declarations about Saint John Paul II uttered as a guest on "Di Martedì" immediately after the conversation with the Vatican promoter of justice, Alessandro Diddi, is more than a fuss.
This morning, to throw water on the fire, his lawyer, the lawyer Laura Sgrò, affirmed that "Mr. Orlandi did not intend to make accusations against any person, he reiterated this to the Promoter, he also wrote it in a memorandum which he filed during his deposition", "he only asked that the search for truth be unconditioned".
But that wasn't enough.
Yesterday's indignant reaction from Pope Wojtyla's historic secretary, Polish cardinal Stanislaw Dsiwisz, was followed today by an even tougher official position taken by the Vatican: "Evidence? None. Clues? Least of all. At least second-hand or third-hand testimony ? Not even the shadow. Only anonymous defamatory accusations ".
He wrote in an editorial published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, the editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, Andrea Tornielli, regarding the "alleged revelations about Pope Wojtyla".
"Madness - adds the Holy See newspaper -. And we are not saying this because Karol Wojtyla is a saint or because he was pope. Even if this media massacre saddens and dismays by wounding the hearts of millions of believers and non-believers,
In the episode of "Di Martedì" three days ago, Pietro Orlandi, commenting on an anonymous audio traced back to a member of the Banda della Magliana, made shocking statements.
"They tell me that Wojtyla occasionally went out in the evening with two Polish monsignors and certainly didn't go to bless houses...", he said at the conclusion of a broader reflection on pedophilia among "high levels" of the ecclesiastical hierarchies.
Yesterday evening, after Dziwisz spoke of "ignoble insinuations", Orlandi published a post on his very popular Facebook profile to denounce the start of the "mud" throwing at him.
Today, through his lawyer, he also wanted to relaunch: "I am sorry that some people have extrapolated a few sentences by manipulating the overall picture of his statements - writes Laura Sgrò -. I am also sorry that, among those who accuse him in the press of harming the memory of those who are no longer there, there are also those who, contacted over the years by Mr. Orlandi, have always avoided an authentic and sincere confrontation with him".
There are many supporters of Pietro Orlandi who on the Net incite him to go ahead and not be intimidated.
But, always online and not only, there are also many faithful and in particular those fond of the memory of the Pope who became a saint in record time, who are expressing profound indignation at the shadows cast over him years later.
