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Paolo Gabriele Did Not Act Alone
Cardinal
Tarcisio Bertone (shown here May 31 at the Vatican gardens) is Pope Benedict's
hand-picked deputy. Vatican watchers say it was Bertone's sacking of a top
administrator who denounced corruption inside the Holy See that triggered the
documents leak.
Vatican
analysts agree that the pope's butler, the mild-mannered 46-year-old Paolo
Gabriele, could not have acted alone and is not the whistle-blowing mastermind.
Gianluigi
Nuzzi, the Italian journalist who published the leaked letters, will not reveal
his sources. And he's is not at all convinced about Gabriele's guilt.
"It's
the Vatican press office that announced that many documents were found in the
butler's home," Nuzzi says. "Now, if he is the whistle-blower he must
be really stupid to hold on to all stuff. And it's very disturbing that the
trial will be held in secret."
But even if
Vatican trials are closed to the public, analyst Politi says, news of the proceedings
will leak out and provide further embarrassment for Benedict.
"The
pope in the last six to seven months has let happen so many scandals about
money and [transparency], that now the Roman Curia and Catholic public opinion
is in great disarray, everybody asking, 'What's going on?' " Politi says.
The Way I C It .....There is much more going on than we will ever know.
