VATICAN CITY
Asia Times
BY FRANCESCO SISCI on NOVEMBER 9, 2015
In the Middle Ages, as personified by the Borgias, the struggle for power in Rome was characterized by poisoning or mayhem behind closed doors. There were no public announcements of such bloodletting. There was only the whisper of rumors in the streets.
Times have apparently changed: Public information or the dissemination of it is now the battlefield for what may amount to an attempted coup d’état in the Vatican.
After a three-year hiatus, the the Holy See is again swamped by a series of scandalous revelations. All appear aimed at shaking papal authority in the Catholic Church, the largest unified religion in the world, to its core.
Some three years ago, a series of news disclosures, popularly called Vati-leaks, led to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. One of the Pope’s butlers was eventually arrested and sentenced for those leaks.
There are those in Rome who believe other, more powerful figures (who remain unknown), were involved in the story of Benedict’s resignation. The reports, letters, and internal correspondence of the Pope and his closest associates ended up in a book by journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, Sua Santità: le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI.
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