ROME
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
ERIC REGULY
ROME — The Globe and Mail
A report that more Vatican insiders are ready to spill secrets has brought the so-called Vatileaks scandal back to life, just as cardinals are preparing to elect a new pope.
The revelation, made Thursday in La Repubblica, one of Italy’s biggest newspapers, came a day after American cardinals got swept up in the Vatican’s obsession with secrecy.
American cardinals had been meeting the press at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, but on Wednesday, an hour before powerful U.S. cardinals Francis George and Timothy Dolan were to appear on statge, the College of Cardinals told the Americans to cancel the events.
The order came down in the days leading up to the papal conclave, the meeting of cardinals to choose the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who retired on Feb. 28. Its start date is expected to be announced this weekend.
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