Police arrested a man, identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, on suspicion of releasing private letters addressed to the pope in a scandal that the Italian press has called Vatileaks. full story ![]()

Pope Benedict XVI found the conduct of his butler, who was convicted and jailed for stealing confidential papers from the Vatican, "incomprehensible", it emerged on Saturday.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)
‘Constant drumbeat’ hastened pope’s exit by Rachel Donadio The New York Times Published Feb 12, 2013 09:01PM MDT Vatican City • Just days after Pope Benedict XVI returned from a 2010 trip to Britain where he met the queen and mended fences with the Anglicans, prosecutors in Rome impounded $30 million from the Vatican Bank in an investigation linked to money laundering. In...
sltrib.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
The VatiLeaks scandal marred Benedict XVI’s last year as pope, embarrassed the church, exposed the dysfunction of the Vatican bureaucracy, and destroyed the career of the butler convicted for leaking the pontiff’s personals correspondence. But it has been very good for some Italians reporters and their publisher. Read full article >>
washingtonpost.com (3 months and 6 days ago)

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huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
VATICAN CITY — If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI’s private papers is Exhibit A.
timesfreepress.com (3 months ago)

VATICAN CITY—If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A.
denverpost.com (3 months and 1 day ago)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A.
boston.com (3 months and 1 day ago)
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A....
ap.org (3 months and 1 day ago)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets. The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis, known for his frugal ways, had decided Vatican employees won't be getting the bonus that traditionally comes with the election of a new pope. In the past, the Vatican's 4,500-plus workers — both religious and lay — would get an...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

ROME, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Monday that a report into papal documents leaked by Pope Benedict's butler in the so-called "Vatileaks scandal" last year will remain confidential and only be shown to the next pontiff. "The Holy Father has decided that the facts of this investigation, the contents of which are known only to Himself, will be made available...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
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