It's Sunday

Vatican police arrested Friday a man — reportedly the pope’s butler — on allegations of having leaked confidential documents and letters from the pontiff’s private study to newspapers.

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[I]nformed sources said the man was Paolo Gabriele, 46, who had been working as a butler in the papal apartments since 2006. One source said the pope was “saddened and shocked” by this “painful case.”

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The Italian daily [Il Foglio] said he is likely to be used by the Vatican as “a handy scapegoat” for several others suspected of being involved in leaking documents, some of which ended up in a new book on the tiny state published a week ago.

Gianluigi Nuzzi’s “His Holiness” reproduces dozens of top secret and private letters and faxes which were smuggled out by whistle-blowers tired of the corruption and unhealthy bitterness in the Vatican.

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The arrest came a day after the head of the Vatican Bank was ousted for failing to clean up the image of an institution that has come to symbolise the opacity and scandal gripping the Holy See’s administration.

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was thrown out by the bank’s board for failing to do his job — but had also recently been suspected of being one of those behind the leaks.

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Moneyval, the Council of Europe’s experts on anti-money laundering, is due to rule at the beginning of July on the whether the Holy See has managed to clean up its act and meet international monetary standards.

  

Times really are “a-changin'” if the Vatican's corruption and filth is finally being aired.

I expect we will be seeing some more of it from the book soon...perhaps dozens of “It's Sunday” posts will be writing themselves.

And, as a side note, the audacity with which corrupt elites have been operating in the past few decades is underscored in the election of a Nazi youth, child abuse-condoning/covering up (perhaps even participating - who knows?) slimeball to the very head of the organization.