regret it bitterly!"

The report went on to summarize it as a "campaign of denigration" against the bishops, conducted through various media friendly to the Holy Father. The pope "has given carte blanche to his official and unofficial 'press officers' to start a 'media campaign' that denigrates opponents," which will serve to "discredit" the bishops, causing them to "lose their credibility."

He noted that Vatican communications is "now in the hands of the Jesuits."

"A regime reigns in the Vatican," Anonymous wrote. "Mail, cell phones under control, surrounding bugs ... in the Vatican are the order of the day."

The Vatican was rocked in December by the book Dictator Pope, which claimed Pope Francis is prone to vindictiveness, and the Vatican under his pontificate is bugged and wiretapped, including the apartments ofcurial officials.

"Clergy and laity working there find that their offices, cars and even private homes are bugged and their telephones tapped," the author told Church Militant. "Everyone you talk to in the Vatican, of all parties or none, will tell you that the atmosphere there is one of profound fear, a state of affairs completely unlike anything known in living memory."

Tosatti noted that "coincidentally" on Tuesday, liberal Catholic Massimo Faggiolo — who wrote a scathing piece against what he pejoratively calls "Catholic Cyber-Militias" — tweeted a negative comment about the bishops behind the recent document.

"This confirms the low level of the signatories," Faggioli commented. "I know one of them well."

He went on to mock the bishops in two more tweets. "Alternative headline," he wrote."'Emerging from their disgruntled retirement,