VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, “Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI,” a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who cites a Vatican source called “Maria” for leaking sensitive letters address to Benedict XVI. Now police have arrested a man whom the press identifies as the Pope’s butler, who is accused of being VatiLeaks’s Maria. From the NYT:
An on-again-off-again scandal that the Italian press has called VatiLeaks burst into the open on Friday with the arrest by Vatican gendarmes of a man, identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s butler, who the Vatican said was in possession of confidential documents and was suspected of leaking private letters, some of which were addressed to Pope Benedict XVI.
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(via Making Light)