VATICAN CITY
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May 19, 2012, 6:18 pm
Posted by Paul Moses
The Vatican issued a statement Saturday calling a new leak of its internal documents “a criminal act” that must be prosecuted. The statement called for prosecution not only of the leaker but also “those who received stolen property” – that is, evidently, Gianluigi Nuzzi, an Italian journalist who came up with a trove of papal records for his new book, Sua Santita, or His Holiness.
The Vatican said it will seek “international cooperation,” which I assume means that it will press Italian authorities to prosecute even the journalist. The publication of the leaked documents is not a “journalistic initiative,” the Vatican insists, but a crime.
I don’t know what protections Italian journalists have; Nuzzi seems to be reveling in the attention, as any author might.
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