ROME
7 News (Australia)
ROME (AFP) – Just 10 days after the pope’s butler was arrested in an investigation into Holy See leaks, an Italian daily Sunday published fresh whistleblower letters, suggesting the scandal is far from over.
Three new documents filched from the Vatican were sent to La Repubblica by an anonymous source in another blow for the Holy See, which has played down rumours that top clerics may be orchestrating a number of informers.
“The truth can be found at the top of the hierarchy,” the source said in a letter accompanying the documents, apparently accusing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretaries, Georg Gaenswein, of allowing secrets to slip out.
Gaenswein, who has access to the pope’s personal study, has been passing highly secret documents to the Holy See’s number two, Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone — some of which then ended up splashed in the media — the whistleblower said.
“Kick out of the Vatican those who are really responsible for the scandal: Mr. Gaenswein and Cardinal Bertone,” the source said, adding that the new documents it had revealed referred to “shameful events inside the Vatican.”
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