I assure you, the red silken gloved and bejeweled fingers (jewels on the outside of the glove, how else will anyone know you are wearing them?) of our favorite tranny was behind this.  The man is approaching Trumpian proportions in his obsession about Frank.  The latest I saw about the Knights of Malta saga was that a loyal lieutenant of the pope's has been put in charge of the Knights' earthly and spiritual concerns for the next year or so.  No mention at all about their corpulent chaplain, Ray.  This was in yesterday's LaStampa (English version)