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Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui Pregnant

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For a financial scandal to have legs there usually must be a sex scandal component.  Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, at the center of the exploding Vatican financial scandal as a suspected leaker, has announced that she is pregnant. This has all the potential makings of an Italian sex farce film circa 1975, for those who enjoy very low comedy.  The Pope’s recent statement comes to mind:  “How often,” he added, “have we heard a woman go to her boss and say: ‘well, I have to tell you, I’m pregnant’. ‘At the end of the month you’re out.” 

Horace Walpole said that the world was a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.  I hope it is not unfeeling of me, but I think we have definitely entered the comedy portion of this pontificate.

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Stephen E Dalton
Stephen E Dalton
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 8:50am

Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 9:34am

What are you? Some kind of stand-up philosopher?

Hank
Hank
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 9:46am

Sophia Loren could play her in the movie… “Divorce ( Synod ) , Italian Style ” .

Phillip
Phillip
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 1:14pm

Who are we to judge? 🙂

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 2:30pm

This is why (so far) Cardinal Pell has not been treated like Cardinal Burke.

Expecting an Argentine of Italian descent to clean up a corrupt institution makes as much sense as planting rose bushes outdoors in January in Edmonton, Alberta and expecting flowers in February.

chris c.
chris c.
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 2:54pm

From other information I have read, Ms. Chaoqui is married. If she is pregnant, what’s the scandal?

DJ Hesselius
DJ Hesselius
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 3:15pm

The scandal is likely because she is being let go…because she is pregnant. No one cares about about financial issues. Way too boring. But the Church being caught yet again screetching CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING IS NON NEGOTIABLE (pro-union, pro-living wage, pro-pregnant women and working mom’s are humans too and need jobs and generous maternity leave…), and then caught firing a pregnant woman, well, those old white geezers in Rome are just as misogynistic as ever.

chris c.
chris c.
Wednesday, November 4, AD 2015 3:37pm

DJ might have a point except the scandal in his scenario would be that of invidious discrimination, whereas the article references a “sex scandal”. Therefore I repeat, what exactly is the “sex scandal”? What is the “sex farce” component that qualifies as “very low comedy”? I don’t think the implication is a married and pregnant woman being let go from her job. But I await any clarification that may be forthcoming.

Mara319
Mara319
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 12:30am

The scandal is that in the past, Francesca Chaouqui has posted a photo of herself half-naked in the arms of a man [perhaps her husband] also half-naked – as if they have just had sex.

She was also reported to have won a breast baring contest where she was identified as a Vatican official. Also, she has handed out gossips about Card. Bertone and the Pope Emeritus to the press and through Tweeter.

In other words, she’s a loose canon waiting to be fired and somehow people expected some scandal about her to happen sooner or later – perhaps to the embarrassment of the Pope.

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 5:17am

Leave it to the current Pontificate to hire her and demote Cardinal Burke.

Ken
Ken
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 6:33am

I view the pregnancy news with a sigh of relief. Every picture I’ve seen of her suggested she was “transgender”.

cpola
cpola
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 6:34pm
Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 6:38pm

Cpola, I am sure you will find some way to blame it all on JP II.

cpola
cpola
Thursday, November 5, AD 2015 7:06pm

“Because they think so highly of themselves,
they think that their sin will not be found out and hated.”
(cf Psalm 36 v 2)

CAM
CAM
Saturday, November 7, AD 2015 11:22pm

Think I will wait for the Lutheran’s cartoon, before forming any opinion.

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