The German conversation should be much more interesting with Archbishop Gänswein in it. And, whether he intended it or not, Francis will be the pope who put him there…..

A terse two-line statement from the Vatican on June 15, announcing that Pope Francis has decided to send Archbishop Georg Gänswein back to his home diocese without any indication of a new assignment, has been widely interpreted as a papal rebuff to the 66-year-old German prelate. In effect, it makes Gänswein the most famous unemployed Catholic bishop in the world…