UNITED STATES
LaCrosse Tribune
Jerome Christenson Winona Daily News | Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The butler did it.
Bet you never thought you’d see that line in a legitimate news story, did you?
For that matter, I’d almost wager you didn’t know there were still people in this world who still hire butlers.
Well, it seems the pope does have a butler, and from what I read in the papers, it appears his Holiness’ head manservant is in hot water over the heist of some top-secret Vatican documents, the contents of which were leaked to the ink-stained wretches of the Italian Fourth Estate—much to the red-faced chagrin of a number of red-hatted churchmen.
I suspect they’re a bit embarrassed that the purloined papers didn’t reveal a set of sub rosa instructions from the Most High, but the sort of small-‘m’ mysteries more common to supermarket tabloids and Fox News — a variety of very much earth-bound intrigues and shenanigans among those close to the throne of the Vicar of Christ and in the top floor offices of the Vatican bank. It’s the sort of thing that carries a bit of the rancid perfume of the Borgias and of things more suited to the sensibilities of 1512 than 2012.
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