ROME
National Catholic Reporter
by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 18, 2012 NCR Today
ROME — On the Vatican leaks front, the figure widely presumed to be the major target of the scandal, Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has accused journalists covering the story of “playing at the imitation of Dan Brown,” inventing “fables and legends,” but insisted that he has “the real church” on his side.
Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, also said he has “no signal” of “the involvement of cardinals” in the affair, and rejected that the leaks scandal reveals “struggles among ecclesiastical personalities for the conquest of a phantom power.”
Bertone spoke in an interview with Famiglia Christiana, a widely read newsweekly in Italy.
“The publication of a multiplicity of letters and documents sent to the Holy Father by persons who have a right to privacy constitutes, as we have affirmed several times, an immoral act of unprecedented gravity,” Bertone said.
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