UNITED KINGDOM
National Secular Society
Posted: Fri, 01 Jun 2012
By Terry Sanderson
It’s always a pleasure to read that the Pope is upset. Nobody deserves to be upset more than His Holiness.
This time Mr Ratzinger is wailing about the publication of a book, His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI, by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi. It is based on documents leaked from the Vatican by un-named sources. The documents reveal a web of corruption and cronyism within the walls of Vatican City that would put a Dan Brown novel to shame.
You can read some of the details in this article.
The Vatican launched an investigation into who could have passed the documents on to the journalist and eventually pinpointed the Pope’s valet, Paolo Gabriele. Yes, the butler did it!
Or that’s according to the Vatican who are now suspected of making this poor man — presently under arrest by the Vatican police — a fall guy.
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