Trump Blair demands that Sanamu be transferred to Rome is exposed

The revelation of Cardinal Tremblay’s request to transfer Sister Shanumi to Rome transforms Lomeli’s investigation from a private attempt to understand the late Pope’s actions into a public confrontation before the cardinals. A confidential email establishes that Tremblay requested the transfer; Sister Agnes later confirms this to the conclave, and Tremblay responds that he acted at the late Pope’s request. The disclosure makes the transfer’s connection to the election impossible to dismiss, while leaving the cardinals to weigh Tremblay’s explanation against the evidence.

The request and the private inquiry

At about 9:30 p.m., after leaving the dining room, Lomeli changes course before going upstairs and asks whether Sister Agnes is still on duty. He seeks her out because he wants to know how Sister Shanumi, who had come from Nigeria, came to be in Rome. His question is prompted by the circumstances: Shanumi had not spoken Italian and had never left Nigeria, so her arrival at the Casa Santa Marta required someone to arrange it.

Lomeli approaches Agnes by invoking the late Pope rather than his own authority. He tells her that the Pope had refused to accept his resignation as dean, and that he now believes the Pope wanted him to run the conclave. He frames his inquiry into Shanumi’s transfer as an effort to serve their late friend, and urges Agnes to ask God what she should do. Agnes initially refuses to break her promise to her superioress. Instead, she types rapidly at her computer and moves aside, allowing Lomeli to read the evidence for himself.

What the email establishes

The email is dated 3 October, two weeks before the late Pope’s death, and marked “In Confidence.” Written by the superioress to Agnes, it reports Shanumi’s immediate transfer to Rome from the Oko community in Ondo province, Nigeria. It asks Agnes to take particular care of Shanumi and states that her presence had been requested by Cardinal Tremblay, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

The document establishes that Tremblay requested Shanumi’s transfer and that the request was conveyed through the superioress to Agnes. It does not, by itself, explain what Tremblay knew about Shanumi or why he wanted her in Rome. That uncertainty matters: Lomeli’s inquiry is linked to his suspicion that Shanumi’s presence may have been intended to embarrass a cardinal participating in the conclave, but the email identifies the request without supplying its motive.

After reading it, Lomeli returns to the lobby and watches Tremblay’s standing among the electors. Sabbadin now fetches Tremblay’s coffee, and the Archbishop of Milan accompanies him to a group of Italian cardinals, who make room for him. Lomeli recognizes that he had underestimated the Canadian cardinal’s influence. The discovery about the transfer thus sits alongside a changing view of Tremblay: he appears increasingly powerful even as the confidential email gives Lomeli reason to scrutinize his role.

Sister Agnes makes the disclosure public

The matter becomes public later, when a dispute in the dining room draws voices both for and against the actions under discussion. Sister Agnes asks to speak. The cardinals turn in surprise as she comes forward, a striking interruption in a gathering where the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul are expected to remain invisible. She explains that she is responsible for her sisters’ welfare and apologizes for the “regrettable scene” involving Shanumi the previous day.

Agnes then confirms that Lomeli spoke to her beforehand and explains why he entered the late Pope’s rooms: he suspected that a sister from her order had been brought to Rome deliberately to embarrass a member of the conclave. She says his suspicions were correct, because she could tell him that Shanumi had come at the specific request of Tremblay. In making that statement, Agnes turns information Lomeli had obtained privately into testimony addressed to the assembled cardinals. She also offers an account of Lomeli’s purpose, presenting his actions as an inquiry into the suspected scheme rather than as malicious conduct.

After addressing the cardinals, Agnes genuflects and leaves the dining room with her head held high. Her intervention does not settle why the transfer was arranged, but it publicly attaches Tremblay’s name to the request and explains the reason for Lomeli’s investigation. The change in audience is decisive: a confidential message that had helped guide a private inquiry is now an open issue within the conclave.

Tremblay’s answer and the rupture

Tremblay acknowledges that he made the request, but denies that he knew Shanumi’s identity. He says he acted because the late Pope asked him to, and swears that he had no knowledge of who she was. His response supplies an alternative explanation for the email without disputing its central fact: Tremblay was the person who requested the transfer. The disclosure therefore establishes involvement, while leaving his claimed reason and knowledge contested.

For several seconds, the cardinals say nothing. Adeyemi then rises and points at Tremblay, calling him “Judas!” The accusation makes the disclosure’s immediate consequence unmistakable: Tremblay’s explanation does not prevent the request from becoming a public test of trust. The scene ends not with an agreed account of the transfer, but with a stark division between Tremblay’s appeal to the late Pope’s authority and Adeyemi’s condemnation.

Significance within the conclave

The disclosure joins two stages of Lomeli’s investigation. First, the email supplies documentary evidence that identifies Tremblay as the requester; then Agnes’s public statement connects that evidence to Lomeli’s search of the late Pope’s rooms and defends the purpose behind it. The sequence moves from private access and confidential correspondence to a formal challenge before the electors, changing the political meaning of the information as it passes from one setting to another.

The episode also preserves an important distinction between what is established and what remains uncertain. The transfer was requested by Tremblay, and Agnes says Lomeli’s suspicion about a deliberate attempt to embarrass a cardinal was correct. Tremblay, however, claims the late Pope directed him to make the request and denies knowing who Shanumi was. The public confrontation sharpens suspicion without resolving that contradiction. Its final image is the accusation of betrayal, leaving the cardinals with evidence of Tremblay’s involvement but no settled account of his intent.