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GMA News
| 1 year ago
They are the pope's shadow, his bodyguards both within the borders of the Vatican and during trips abroad. They are the police of the world's smallest state. But while the Vatican's gendarmes are trained to protect Benedict XVI from external...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
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. Judas...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
An Italian journalist behind a leaks scandal shaking the Roman Catholic Church denies Vatican accusations he is a criminal and says he was only doing his duty to uncover the truth. Gianluigi Nuzzi's book, alleging corruption and conspiracies among...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The Pope has condemned as "gratuitous" the media's coverage of a scandal involving the arrest of his butler on suspicion of stealing confidential Vatican documents. In his first public comments on the affair, Pope Benedict XVI spoke in unusually...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures From the blogs Clara Cullen argues that giving government the constitutional power to define what, or more importan... Women think they're complimenting other women by commenting on how thin they look: this, in my eyes,... Cambridge...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
A Vatican scandal involving leaked secret documents and the arrest of the pope's butler has been exaggerated and misrepresented by the press, Pope Benedict XVI said on Wednesday. "Totally frivolous conjecture has been amplified by means of...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Pope Benedict on Wednesday angrily denounced what he called false media coverage of a leaks scandal shaking the Vatican and expressed full trust in close aides under fire over the worst crisis in his papacy. In unusually blunt remarks at the end of a...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
With the crisis over leaks of sensitive documents deepening, the third most senior figure in the Vatican fired a bitter salvo in the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Vatican deputy secretary of state Archbishop Angelo Becciu said in...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
15 AM Wednesday May 30, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI feels betrayed by his butler, who was arrested during an investigation into Vatican whistle blowers, and is determined to root out moles, his spokesman Federico Lombardi has said. "The pope is a witness...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Pope wounded by Gabriele's betrayal Zeenews Bureau Vatican City: In a major disclosure in one of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades, the Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi on Tuesday said Pope Benedict XVI feels betrayed by his butler, who...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi on Tuesday rejected reports that five cardinal were being questioned over the deepening scandal of leaked documents revealing corruption and power struggles within the Vatican. ''Media reports that five cardinals...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The pope's butler says he will help in the investigation of a scandal involving allegations of jealousy, intrigue and factional infighting at the Vatican. Paolo Gabriele, under arrest by Vatican police after being accused of leaking the pontiff's...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
The Vatican has been forced to deny that a senior cardinal is the mastermind behind the so-called Vatileaks scandal in which the Pope's personal butler has been arrested. Fr Federico Lombardi, the Pope's official spokesman, spoke out after several...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
The rapid-fire ouster of the chief of the Vatican bank and the arrest of the Pope's butler have plunged the Vatican into yet another crisis...Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion,...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home, agreeing to cooperate with investigators raising the specter that higher-ranking ecclesial...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
An unnamed cardinal is suspected of being a leading mole behind a series of embarrassing leaks of confidential papal documents, the Italian media has reported. ''A cardinal led the crow,'' read the headline in Il Messaggero , referring to Pope...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics The Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L) arrives with Pope Benedict XVI (R) at St. Peter's Square in Vatican, in this file photo taken May 23, 2012. The Vatican acknowledged on Monday that the worst crisis in Pope Benedict's papacy had...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home agreeing to cooperate with investigators, his lawyer said Monday. Paolo Gabriele's pledge to...
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Ansa
| 1 year ago
The Vatican on Monday denied reports that a cardinal and a woman were being probed in the so-called 'Vatileaks' case and denied that the investigation had anything to do with a recent high-profile sacking at the Vatican Bank. "No cardinal is under...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The Vatican is hunting a suspected mastermind of the Vatileaks scandal that has led to the Pope's butler being charged over the leaking of highly sensitive documents. Paolo Gabriele, 46, was detained last week but few believe he was the brains behind...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The worst crisis in Pope Benedict's pontificate deepened on Monday when Italian media said at least one cardinal was among those suspected of leaking sensitive documents as part of a power struggle at the top of the Church. The scandal exploded last...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades appears to be widening with reports that an Italian cardinal may be involved in a power struggle involving leaked documents, corruption and intrigue. Leading newspapers Corriere della Sera and Il...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Pope Benedict remained silent Sunday regarding the arrest of his personal butler, charged with stealing Vatican documents and leaking them to the media. Papal investigation is ongoing into documents found in Paolo Gabriele's Vatican apartment, which...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Pronouncements on sexual inequality in the UK are normally met with an eye roll by my generation...Suggested Topics The Pope's butler has been formally charged with stealing confidential documents, and further arrests may follow, the Vatican has...
