Pope Francis dismisses head of Swiss Guard
(AGI) Vatican City, Dec 3 - Pope Francis has dismissed the headof the Swiss Guard, Colonel Daniel Rudolf Anrig. Certainrumours attribute the decision to Anrig's excessive strictnessin applying military rules. Speculation in the Vatican,however, involves a more personal reason, possibly an apartmentthat Anrig restructured and allegedly expanded by using terracespace from the barracks near St. Anne's Gate. The practice ofusing terraces in the Vatican as building space was begun byCardinal Agostino Casaroli in the 1990s, when leaving hisapartment to his successor as Secretary of State, AngeloSodano. He in turn followed