ROME
La Repubblica
by MARCO ANSALDO
ROME – Who are the Vatican whistleblowers? “There isn’t just one brain behind the operation, there are several. There are cardinals, private secretaries, monsignors and the small fry. Men and women, priests and laypeople. The whistleblowers even include cardinals. But the Vatican Secretary of State cannot admit that and has the small fry arrested, like “Paoletto” (as Paolo Gabriele is affectionately known), the Pope’s valet. Who has got nothing to do with it apart from having passed on some letters.”
A suburb in the north of Rome, a table in a bar, traffic passing by. It is lunchtime on a now limpid Sunday morning and one of those behind the flow of confidential letters from the Holy See 1 is explaining how the operation works.
“Those doing it are acting to protect the Pope.”
The Pope? Why?
“Because the whistleblower – or rather whistleblowers, because there are more than one of them – want to reveal the corruption inside the church in recent years, since 2009-2010.”
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