In march 2012, pope benedict appointed a commission of cardinals to investigate the leaks Vatican internal investigation the vatican investigation of the leaks worked along several tracks, with vatican magistrates pursuing the criminal investigation and the vatican secretariat of state an administrative investigation The three cardinals appointed by benedict acted in a supervisory role, examining more than the narrow.
Vatican leaks scandal: Five go on trial in Holy See - BBC News
A series of embarrassing leaks has exposed conspiracies, corruption, backstabbing, and bitter rivalries within the catholic church's hierarchy
Although the vatican has made it known that pope francis is deeply saddened by the alleged leaks, it is far from clear that this latest scandal hurts the pope.
The documents which exposed corruption vatileaks, or the vatican leaks scandal, came into focus in 2012 and involved the leaks of sensitive vatican documents, which exposed its rampant corruption. The vatican's new leaks scandal intensified on tuesday as a book detailed the mismanagement and internal resistance that has been thwarting pope franci s' financial reform efforts. Five people, including two investigative journalists and a spanish priest, go on trial in the vatican over the leaking of secret documents. This affair has come to be called vatileaks (literally, leaks from the vatican) by the italian press, from the revelations of matters on the website wikileaks that rocked the united state government in 2010
The arrest of the pope's butler, paolo gabriele, 46, on may 23 (it was made public on may 26), caught everyone by surprise. The vatican has never been a democracy, but the incongruity of a government that is a moral authority on the global stage and yet an absolute monarchy is becoming increasingly evident. Whistleblowers like paolo gabriele, carlo maria viganò, and francesca chaouqui exposed corruption, often at great personal cost, facing retaliation through arrests, trials, or reassignment.
