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Staten Island Advance
By Maura Grunlund/Staten Island Advance
on March 07, 2013
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which is headed by New York’s Cardinal Dolan, claims that the leaks of information from the Vatican are continuing despite the Vatican’s decision to cancel the popular news conferences given by the American cardinals.
More than 5,000 reporters have descended on the Vatican and it’s apparently become a media feeding frenzy since Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to resign on Feb. 28.
In her blog, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the director of media relations for the conference, wrote from her temporary office inside the Vatican that “La Repubblica newspaper on Thursday ran a story claiming revelations from the secret Vatican Report on Vatileaks. Meanwhile, a few Italian journalists apparently have the minutes of the General Congregation.”
“Stopping the leaks will be one challenge in a media culture which lives on leaks. It’s just the way to do business here in Rome and has been for years.”
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