Vatican: Cardinal Herranz to chair “commission” on leaked documents

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider

The Vatican Secretary of State has stated that the Commission will “act at all levels on the strength of its pontifical mandate”

Vatican Insider staff
Rome

The Commission of Cardinals, created by order of the Holy Father, met on 24 April to decide on a method and set a timetable for its activities. The Cardinal’s Commission, which is chaired by Cardinal Julian Herranz and include Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi as members is setting to work straight away “to undertake an authoritative investigation and throw light on” the “recent leaks of reserved and confidential [Vatican] documents on television, in newspapers and in other communications media.”

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