That someone, actually, was "someone" right up at the top in Rome... not a parish priest or some lay busybody. Unfortunately, I have not got a very good memory when it comes to names and all those modern, ten mile long new tags pasted on the various positions in the church today.
And either the same "someone" or a very similar one who was right up there at the top, who definitely should have known what was going on at the very top of the chain, said, pointing to the pope's apartments, "Even I do not know what is going on up there."
But I prefer to leave it at "someone" and "near the top" than say, "cardinal so and so" and turn out to be totally wrong. I only remember that it was someone WAY at the top, who should have known everything going on, and who would certainly have known the atmosphere there because he was actually IN it.
Oh, and it was a bishop who related this, who among his other remarks before that said, (words to the effect of) "There are lots of interesting things going on... I will tell you SOME of them, but not ALL..." because he wanted only to tell the things he was absolutely, positively certain of the truth of. In fact, he wouldn't even tell one fact because he was only 99% certain of it's accuracy.
Of course I shouldn't be too surprised. If you're not willing to give the pope the benefit of the doubt, I should hardly expect you to give it to a mere puny lay person.