{"id":23868,"date":"2012-08-13T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23868"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:39:40","slug":"pope-benedict-xvis-butler-to-faces-charges-over-leak-vatican-says-23868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pope-benedict-xvis-butler-to-faces-charges-over-leak-vatican-says-23868\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI’s butler to faces charges over leak, Vatican says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pope Leak scandal has rocked the Catholic Church hierarchy.<\/h1>\n

Pope Benedict XVI’s butler will be charged with aggravated theft over the leaking of hundreds of secret papers from the pope’s personal apartment to an Italian journalist, a Vatican spokesman announced Monday.<\/p>\n

A second man, Vatican IT expert Claudio Sciarpelletti, will be charged with aiding the butler, Paolo Gabriele, according to the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman.<\/p>\n

Gabriele, one of the pope’s closest personal assistants, was arrested in May on suspicion of passing the papers to an Italian journalist.<\/p>\n

Gabriele was held in a special Vatican cell for about a month and a half before being released to house arrest in July.<\/p>\n

The Vatican says Gabriele is cooperating with investigators and admits leaking the papers, which consisted of faxes, letters and memos, including some from a high-ranking church official expressing concerns about corruption within the Vatican.<\/p>\n

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The arrest followed a top-level Vatican investigation into how the private documents appeared in the best-selling book “Sua Santita” (“His Holiness”) by Gianluigi Nuzzi, an Italian journalist.<\/p>\n

The Vatican called the publication of his book “criminal” when it was released in Italian.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Julian Herranz got a “pontifical mandate” in April to uncover the source of the hundreds of personal letters and confidential documents that made their way to Nuzzi.<\/p>\n

Nuzzi would not confirm the identity of his sources, but he told \u00a0that his primary source – whom he referred to as “Maria” in his book – “risked life and limb” if ever found out.<\/p>\n

The source worked inside the Vatican, according to Nuzzi, who refused to give other details such as the source’s gender, age and if he or she was clergy.<\/p>\n

Nuzzi’s book highlights an internal power struggle within the Vatican through numerous documents including faxes, personal letters and inter-Vatican memos. He told \u00a0that he received the documents during a year of private meetings in secret locations.<\/p>\n

The Vatican has not denied the authenticity of the documents, but instead says the breach of privacy is a criminal act.<\/p>\n\n

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