VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
The spiritual director. Cardinal Sardi. Former manager Ingrid Stampa. All in support of the pope, in words. But Benedict XVI is the first victim of the disaster
by Sandro Magister
ROME, October 8, 2012 – Three years in prison, reduced with attenuating circumstances to a year and a half. This is the penalty to which the tribunal of Vatican City-State has sentenced the pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele:
But Gabriele’s sentence for the theft of documents from the pope’s apartment does not at all remedy the disorder into which the central government of the Catholic Church has been plunged.
On the contrary, his trial has brought into even greater focus how vulnerable the pope’s sphere of activity is, even when it should have the greatest protection.
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