Pope's butler leaked papers to shock 'corrupt' Church
Gloria.TV – News Briefs 14/08/2012 06:28:36
Pope Benedict XVI's butler will be tried on an aggravated theft charge over the leaking of hundreds of secret papers from the pope's personal apartment to an Italian journalist, a Vatican spokesman said Monday.
The butler, Paolo Gabriele, acted out of a desire to combat "evil and corruption everywhere in the Church," according to a prosecutor in the case.
"I was certain that a shock ... would have been healthy to bring the church back onto the right track," the prosecutor, Nicola Piccardi, wrote in a report released Monday by the Vatican.
The arrest followed a top-level Vatican investigation into how the private documents appeared in the best-selling book "Sua Santita"
("His Holiness") by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.
Nuzzi's book highlights an internal power struggle within the Vatican through numerous documents, including faxes, personal letters and inter-Vatican memos. He told CNN that he received the documents during a year of private meetings in secret locations.
The Vatican has not denied the authenticity of the documents but instead says the breach of privacy is a criminal act.

