9/18/2012

Vatileaks: Pope's butler trial date set By Rain - Posted on 18 September 2012

The Telegraph - AFP, 9/17/12

The Pope's former butler and a Vatican computer technician will go on trial starting September 29 on charges of leaking secret papers that unveiled fraud and intrigue in the Holy See.

Vatileaks: Pope's butler trial date set

Papal butler Paolo Gabriele (left, front) travelling with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican Photo: EPA
 

The butler, Paolo Gabriele, has told investigators he was acting as an agent for the Holy Spirit to rid the Catholic Church of "evil and corruption".

He is accused of aggravated theft, which carries a sentence of up to six years in prison, in a scandal dubbed "Vatileaks" by the Italian press.

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