VATICAN CITY
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
Documents and letters stolen from the Vatican and handed to Italian journalists make damning allegations of intrigue within the Holy See.
By Nick Squires
5:04PM BST 06 Jun 2012
Pope Benedict XVI is apparently unable to prevent poisonous feuds and vendettas between rival groups of cardinals, according to “His Holiness – The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI”.
Several of the documents cast in a particularly bad light Tarcisio Bertone, who as secretary of state is the Pope’s right-hand man and effectively the prime minister of the world’s smallest state.
1 The most sensational allegation is Cardinal Bertone conspired with the editor of the Vatican’s daily newspaper in a dirty tricks campaign against a rival.
Gian Maria Vian, the editor of L’Osservatore Romano, allegedly leaked false documents which purported to show that Dino Boffo, the editor of another Catholic newspaper, L’Avvenire, had had a homosexual affair, forcing Mr Boffo to resign from the editorship.
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