VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
The troika of cardinals has listened to 23 people so far and Paolo Gabriele is still behind bars
Alessandro Speciale
Vatican City
The Commission of three cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to conduct a full scale investigation into the Vatileaks case has heard 23 people so far. Among them is the Pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, who is the only one to have been formally accused to date.
The three elderly cardinals – The Spaniard Julian Herranz, a member of the Opus Dei and former president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, the Slovak, Josef Tomko, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the Italian Salvatore De Giorgi, former Archbishop of Palermo, all over 80 – reported to Pope Benedict XVI Saturday afternoon.
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