Speaking for the first time on the topic of Vatileaks, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (Prime Minister), Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told an Italian television interviewer that Pope Benedict is not overly worried by the scandal. “He doesn’t allow himself to be frightened by attacks, of any sort, nor by the hard accumulation of prejudices,” Bertone Read more
A Vatican judge began formally questioning the pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, Tuesday, said Paolo Papanti-Pelletier, (pictured) a judge on the Vatican tribunal. Papanti-Pelletier, not involved in the case said Gabriele’s said questioning took place in the presence of his two lawyers and it is the first formal interrogation of the only person yet to be arrested Read more
The home of the recently ousted president of the Vatican bank was searched Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation into Italy’s state-controlled aerospace and engineering giantFinmeccanica, prosecutors said. Prosecutor Francesco Greco told The Associated Press that the search had nothing to do with Ettore Gotti Tedeschi’s role as head of the Vatican bank and Read more
New leaks from the Vatican over the weekend meant there was no respite for Pope Benedict, in Milan to celebrate an event focusing on family values. In its Sunday edition, Rome newspaper La Repubblica published more documents saying it received them anonymously after the arrest of the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele. The paper also received a Read more
(Reuters) – Just after dawn on Wednesday, May 23, Paolo Gabriele said goodbye to his wife, passed by the bedrooms of his three children and left to start another day in the service of the man Roman Catholics believe is the vicar of Christ on Earth. By the end of the day, Pope Benedict’s butler Read more
According to NCR columnist, John Allen, if there was doubt that Bertone was not the target of Vatileaks, journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi puts this idea to rest in the “sensational new book,” His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI.” Allen says Nuzzi’s book leaves little doubt about the resistance around Bertone and the Vatileaks thriller cites the Read more
The Vatican has denied media reports claiming that cardinals tasked with deciding the fate of its bank’s president were struggling to come to an agreement as an internal rift widens. The commission of cardinals must decide whether or not to uphold the bank board’s decision to oust Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who was fired for allegedly Read more
Cardinals tasked with deciding the fate of the president of the Vatican Bank – amid financial scandals and a struggle for power in the Holy See – are struggling to come to an agreement, media reports said today. The commission of cardinals must decide whether or not to uphold the board’s decision to oust Ettore Read more
Gianluigi Nuzzi, author of the 273 page ‘sell out’ book, “His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI” alleging corruption and conspiracies among cardinals in a Vatican power struggle, denies Vatican accusations that he is a criminal. Nuzzi said the book was based on conversations with more than 10 Vatican whistleblowers. “We have a group Read more
Carl A. Anderson, head of the U.S.-based Knights of Columbus and secretary of the Vatican bank’s board of supervisors, said a commitment to promoting transparency led the board to fire Ettore Gotti Tedeschi as bank president. The board of the bank noted that members had repeatedly expressed concern to Gotti Tedeschi about the bank’s “governance,” Read more