VATICAN CITY
Telegraph (United Kingdom)
The Pope has come out in full support for his deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the chief targeted of the Vatileaks documents.
3:34PM BST 04 Jul 2012
The pontiff’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested at the end of May and charged with stealing the pope’s private papers. He remains locked up in a Vatican police “safe room”.
The leaked documents allege graft over the awarding of infrastructure projects and a power struggle between rival groups of cardinals – the princes of the Church.
On Wednesday, the Vatican released a letter from Benedict XVI to Cardinal Bertone, his secretary of state or prime minister, in which he said: “I wish to express my profound appreciation for your discreet support and your enlightened counsel which I have found of particular help in recent months.”
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