[OMEGA]

VATICAN CITY—The Vatican’s inquisition into the source of leaked documents has
yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope’s butler, but the
investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by
revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the
highest levels of the Catholic Church governance.
The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few members of the papal
household, capped one of the most convulsive weeks in recent Vatican history and
threw the Holy See into chaos as it enters a critical phase in its efforts to
show the world it’s serious about complying with international norms on
financial transparency.
The tumult began with the publication last weekend of a book of leaked Vatican
documents including correspondence, notes and memos to the pope and his private
secretary. It peaked with the inglorious ouster on Thursday of the president of
the Vatican bank. And it concluded with confirmation Saturday that Pope Benedict
XVI’s own butler was the alleged mole feeding documents to Italian journalists
in an apparent bid to discredit the pontiff’s No. 2.
“If you wrote this in fiction you wouldn’t believe it,” said Carl Anderson, a
member of the board of the Vatican bank which contributed to the whirlwind with
its no-confidence vote in its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. “No editor would
let you put it in a novel.”
The bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, issued a scathing
denunciation of Gotti Tedeschi in a memorandum obtained Saturday by The
Associated Press. In it the bank, or IOR by its Italian initials, explained its
reasons for ousting Gotti Tedeschi: he routinely missed board meetings, failed
to do his job, failed to defend the bank, polarized its personnel and displayed
“progressively erratic personal behaviour.”
Gotti Tedeschi was also accused by the board of leaking documents himself: The
IOR memorandum said he “failed to provide any formal explanation for the
dissemination of documents last known” to be in his possession.
In an interview with the AP, Anderson said the latter accusation was independent
of the broader “Vatileaks” scandal that has rocked the Vatican for months. But
he stressed: “It is not an insignificant issue.”
Gotti Tedeschi hasn’t commented publicly about his ouster or the reasons behind
it, saying he has too much admiration for the pope to do so. He also hasn’t been
arrested, avoiding the fate that befell Gabriele.
The 46-year-old father of three has been in Vatican detention since Wednesday
after Vatican investigators discovered Holy See documents in his apartment. The
Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Gabriele had met with his
lawyers and that the investigation was taking its course through the Vatican’s
judicial system.
Gabriele, the pope’s personal butler since 2006, has often been seen by
Benedict’s side in public, riding in the front seat of the pope’s open-air jeep
during Wednesday general audiences or shielding the pontiff from the rain. In
private, he is a member of the small papal household that also includes the
pontiff’s private secretaries and four consecrated women who care for the papal
apartment.
Lombardi said Gabriele’s detention marked a sad development for all Vatican
staff. “Everyone knows him in the Vatican, and there’s certainly surprise and
pain, and great affection for his beloved family,” the spokesman said.
The “Vatileaks” scandal has seriously embarrassed the Vatican at a time when it
is trying to show the world financial community that it has turned a page and
shed its reputation as a scandal plagued tax haven.
Vatican documents leaked to the media in recent months have undermined that
effort, alleging corruption in Vatican finance as well as internal bickering
over the Holy See’s efforts to comply with international norms to fight money
laundering and terror financing.

[Cruciform]

Originally Posted by OMEGA

THE BUTLER DID IT - MONEY LAUNDERING

NEWS FLASH: "Christians Sometimes Commit Sins!"

Yet another wasted thread by OMEGA...



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[jgarden]

One would have thought that a religious leader endowed with the powers of "Papal infalibility" would have been able to avoid these kinds of problems.

One particlar Vatican "failing" that I find particularily intreging is the onging scandals associated with the "Institute for Religious Works" (the Vatican Bank), its reputation "as a scandal plagued tax haven" and the recent dismissal of its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who was supposedly correcting the problems.

When the dust finally settles, it may be the Pope's "butler" is the one who comes out of this as the big financial "winner" - given the potential revenues associated publishing his memoirs, the movie rights, international syndicated newspaper accounts, the musical, etc.

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Originally Posted by jgarden

When the dust finally settles, it may be the Pope's "butler" is the one who comes out of this as the big financial "winner" - given the potential revenues associated publishing his memoirs, the movie rights, international syndicated newspaper accounts, the musical, etc.

As long as they don't make an Opera.

[Cruciform]

Originally Posted by jgarden

One would have thought that a religious leader endowed with the powers of "Papal infalibility" would have been able to avoid these kinds of problems.

Why would one assume that? "Infallibility" (the inability to teach formal doctrinal error) is not the same thing as "impeccability" (the inability to commit sin), after all.



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[OMEGA]

"impeccability" (the inability to commit sin),

Maybe the Pope is too Old to remember what sin was.

hahahahahaha

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Originally Posted by OMEGA

"impeccability" (the inability to commit sin), Maybe the Pope is too Old to remember what sin was. hahahahahaha

If you ever manage to come up with an actual argument, let me know.



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[OMEGA]

Cruciform ,

Have you ever been a Boy Scout leader ?

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Originally Posted by OMEGA

Cruciform, Have you ever been a Boy Scout leader ?

Post #7.



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