They Died For The Crime Of What They Knew—Where Is Your Name On The Death List?
The questions “What did she know?” and “Who wanted her silenced?” rushed to the forefront of my mind the other day when I heard of the tragic and sudden death of Miriam Wuolou, a barely known 34-year-old woman who was in her seventh month of pregnancy, except for those of us in the ecclesiastical world who knew Sister Miriam as the “gatekeeper” for Pope Francis. For years Sister Miriam managed the Vatican guesthouse called Domus Sanctae Marthae (aka Santa Marta), where she worked as a kind of gatekeeper for Pope Francis, as well as for his bishops and cardinals—a place Pope Francis chose to live at after his Papal appointment in 2013 when he refused to live in the grand papal apartments in the Vatican because he found them too elaborate—and is where rumors began to swirl last year after she became pregnant, even though she had long been separated from her husband—and is, also, where her lifeless body was discovered this week—the most troubling aspect about being: “Investigators have heard several witnesses, including family, friends and acquaintances. A circumstance that concerns suspicious investigators is the fact that the woman had been dead for several days but, despite being pregnant and suffering from a disease, no one was aware of the incident”. […]