He said, they said suggests that opposing opinions are hardly grounds for resignation, when there is clearly a well orchestrated campaign underway to blame Francis, based on hearsay that has been ever so delicately fed by a conservative journalist to the media, by a frustrated archbishop angry that he has not been rewarded with a red hat for services to diplomacy. Vigano's choice to disappear presents Dan Brown with another opportunity to write another novel with The Vatican as the centre of intrigue.
Josef Goebbels would have appreciated the drama and the misinformation calculated to destroy the reputation of a pope based on gossip.