VATICAN CITY
Sydney Morning Herald
June 3, 2012
DPA
An Italian newspaper has received confidential Vatican documents from a unknown source who in a message claimed that a papal butler arrested last week for allegedly stealing Holy See files was a “scapegoat” in a plot involving top officials.
La Repubblica said the leaking of the documents showed that Paolo Gabriele, who is currently held in the Vatican, “is not the only one” responsible for the so-called “Vatileaks” scandal which has engulfed the Vatican.
La Repubblica published on Sunday part of what it said was an anonymous, computer-typed message carrying the heading: “Chase away from the Vatican, those really responsible (for the scandal).”
The message claims that the Vatican’s second highest official, Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, are the main culprits in an unspecified plot.
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