UNITED STATES
New York Post
Maureen Callahan
As if to further underscore their deep remove from the modern world, Vatican officials, in a clumsy attempt to stanch new and damaging leaks from within, announced that they’ve arrested the person responsible: the pope’s butler.
“It’s like a punchline,” says Matthew Bunson, editor of Catholic Answer magazine. “You wind up with the headline, ‘The Butler Did It.’ ”
Among those who pay close attention to this stuff, none believe that the butler did it.
“The evidence stacked up against him is almost too good,” says Michael James, fellow at the Roche Center for Catholic Education at Boston College. “There’s been [an internal] investigation going on for a year about missing documents. The theory is that he’s being set up.”
But that’s getting ahead of ourselves. For many Americans, the question remains: What, exactly, is the butler supposed to have done? And does it really matter?
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