ROME
The Daily Beast
Jun 4, 2012
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Fresh leaks from inside the Vatican suggest that the pope’s attendant was merely the ‘scapegoat’ of a much more powerful culprit. Barbie Latza Nadeau on what the latest twist has exposed.
The VatiLeaks source has struck again! But this time, the butler didn’t do it.
On Sunday, editors at the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published several documents they say were mailed to them after the arrest of Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, on May 24.
Gabriele is being held in a “secure room” somewhere within the tiny walled borders of Vatican City. He faces 30 years in prison for aggravated theft for allegedly leaking documents to Gianluigi Nuzzi, an Italian journalist who printed many of the confidential papers in the bestselling book His Holiness. Nuzzi will not reveal his sources’ names, ages, or gender, but he told The Daily Beast that they were Vatican employees trying to expose “the truth behind the Vatican’s lies.”
Among the fresh leaks obtained by La Repubblica are supposedly letters from the desk of the pope’s private secretary, featuring the Holy See’s crested letterhead and the signature “don Georg Gaenswein.” The contents are blanked out; the secret sender told the paper that the bodies of the letters were hidden so as not to “offend the Holy Father,” but that he or she was prepared to share them if the Vatican didn’t come clean about the real source of the leaks.
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