VATICAN CITY
The Chronicle-Herald (Canada)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY — One of the Vatican’s biggest scandals in decades widened Monday with the Pope’s butler — arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home — agreeing to co-operate with investigators, his lawyer said Monday.
Paolo Gabriele’s pledge to co-operate with Vatican magistrates raises the spectre that high-ranking prelates may soon be named in the investigation into leaks of confidential Vatican correspondence that have shed a light on power struggles and intrigue inside the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
Italian media reported Monday a cardinal is suspected of playing a major role in the “Vatileaks” scandal. However, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, denied the reports. He said many Vatican officials were being questioned in the investigation but insisted “there is no cardinal under suspicion.”
He also dismissed as “pure fantasy” a rash of other unsourced reports about the investigation in the Italian media, which have been on a frenzy ever since reports of Gabriele’s detention emerged Friday.
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