VATICAN CITY
Catholic Sentinel
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Depending on what commentary one reads, recent leaks of internal Vatican memos and private letters to Pope Benedict XVI are the work either of praiseworthy whistle-blowers or criminal moles.
Gianluigi Nuzzi, the Italian journalist who published a book based on dozens of private Vatican documents, said his main source was part of a group of Vatican employees who wanted to “help” Pope Benedict XVI clean up the church by revealing evidence of corruption, infighting and power struggles.
But Archbishop Angelo Becciu, a top official in the Vatican Secretariat of State, said leaking the material was “behavior unjustifiable from every point of view.”
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