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Pope Francis has accused the German prelate Georg Gänswein, the long-time confidant of the late pope Benedict XVI, of a “lack of humanity” and having “used” the former pontiff. Pope Francis, 87, has levelled the accusations in a new book of interviews which will be published in Spanish on Wednesday. In the interviews, Pope Francis takes issue with Gänswein’s decision to publish a book immediately after Benedict’s death on New Year’s Eve 2022. In the interview book “El Sucesor” (“The Successor”) by Spanish Vatican correspondent Javier Martínez-Brocal, the pope also accused Gänswein of spreading…

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