Vatican Scandal 2012: Pope Benedict's Butler Charged

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An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a
Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own
butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were
found in his Vatican City apartment.

The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the
papal household, capped one of the most convulsive weeks in recent
Vatican history and threw the Holy See (aka the Catholic Mob) into
chaos as it enters a critical phase in its efforts to show the world
it's serious about complying with international norms on financial
transparency.

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The tumult began with the publication last weekend of a book of leaked
Vatican documents detailing power struggles, political intrigue and
corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance. It
peaked with the inglorious ouster on Thursday of the president of the
Vatican bank. And it concluded with confirmation Saturday that Pope
Benedict XVI's own butler was the alleged mole feeding documents to
Italian journalists in an apparent bid to discredit the pontiff's No. 2.

"If you wrote this in fiction you wouldn't believe it," said Carl
Anderson, a member of the board of the Vatican bank which contributed
to the tumult with its no-confidence vote in its president, Ettore
Gotti Tedeschi. "No editor would let you put it in a novel."

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