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Vatican police said today they found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler, including original documents signed by the pope bearing indications they should be destroyed.
The police officers testified in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s once-trusted butler who faces four years in prison if convicted of aggravated theft for allegedly stealing papal documents and leaking them.
Prosecutors have said Gabriele, a devout 46-year-old father of three, confessed to leaking copies of the documents to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi because he wanted to expose the “evil and corruption” in the church to help put it back on the right path.
The documents have ignited an uproar, for they revealed infighting and alleged corruption in the Vatican as the pope grows older and more frail. The security breach has been one of the most damaging scandals of Benedict’s seven-year papacy.
Gabriele said Tuesday he stood by his June 5 confession and acknowledged he betrayed the pope’s trust, but he nevertheless pleaded innocent to the charge of aggravated theft.
The final four witnesses in the trial were heard today and closing arguments are set for Saturday, when a verdict by the three-judge Vatican panel is expected. [more]
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The sad part of all this is; that the truth is on trial and the church’s secrets are not. Why does the church need secrets? I guess honesty was the first casualty of the vatcian years and years ago.
Thomas the truth is not on trial here it is the butler who betrayed his employer the Pope, the leader of the Holy Catholic Church who is on trial here. Lest you forget!!
Litany of Humility
O Jesus meek and humble of heart (hear me)
From the desire of being….
esteemed, ….deliver me, O Jesus.
from the desire of being….
loved, extolled, honoured, praised, preferred to others, consulted, approved….deliver me, O Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of sufferring rebukes,
From the fear of being calumniated, forgotten, ridiculed, wronged, suspected, ..deliver me, O Jesus
That others may be loved more than I….O Jesus grant me the grace to desire it.
That in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease…….
That others may be choosen andI set aside……..
That others may be praised and I unnoticed………
That otheres may be preferred to me in everything………
That otheres may become holier than I, provided I may become as holy as I should..Oh Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
Cardinal Merry del Val.
(if my dear Catholic friends who comment here would only pray this prayer our Church would become all that Christ intended it to be)
The issue here is that a trusted employee violated his trust and loyality to the Pope period. What about the commandment, “Thou shall not steal?” I feel for the Pope taht believed he had loyal people around him. I hope the man gos tp prision.
Transparency and truth trumps misguided trust and loyality to a pope who acts as if he is an absolute, infallible monarch and cares most about the “image” of the church than honesty and fairness to the people of the church.
Don’t forget, this guy was the head of the Inquisition (call a spade a spade), who had no qualms about covering up crimes in passing pedophile priests from parish to parish — all for the sake of the “image” of the church.
To paraphrase Pope Paul VI, no more secrets, never again secrets. In everything you say an do, be able to say and do it in the sunlight. The church oJesus Christ doesn’t need secrets, except what is confessed to God in the co nfessional.
Nor does the Church of Jesus Christ need people who will betray the it’s leader and pretend it is to enlighten Gods children.
The pope only seems to care about the “image” of the church portrayed to the media — not the reality of all the dirt that is going on beneath the surface. Catholic want transparency — not fairy stories!
“The documents have ignited an uproar, for they revealed infighting and alleged corruption in the Vatican as the pope grows older and more frail.”
We have an absolute right to know what’s going on in our church! No More Secrets!