Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn is one of those people who works with great influence behind the scenes in the Church. Her passion is theology and she has lectured widely in the subject as well as helped fund and support theological institutions. But much of it has been under the radar of ordinary Catholics – until the VatiLeaks scandal. Then, a letter that Aldegonde and her husband, Hubert, had written to Benedict XVI – the man who had been peritus at the Second Vatican Council to her uncle, Cardinal Josef Frings of Cologne – was revealed, in which they wrote frankly of lay Catholics’ disillusionment with the Church, and its senior hierarchs’ obsession with money and power. “Why are bishops appointed in Europe that neither have contact with the &lsquo