While other scandals haunt the church, the banking scandal was showing lots of intrigue and back stabbing, so who was leaking letters to the media regarding the scandal? An arrest was made and what is the “fresh twist” in the affair? Butler was the likely leak:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/the-butler-did-it-fresh-twist-in-vatican-whodunit-20120526-1zbtl.html
A MYSTERIOUS source named Maria. A room furnished with a single chair, where sensitive Vatican documents are turned over to an investigative journalist. The arrest of the Pope’s butler. Perhaps the greatest breach in centuries in the wall of secrecy surrounding the Vatican.
An on-again, off-again scandal the Italian press has called VatiLeaks burst into the open on Friday with the arrest by Vatican police of a man identified in news reports as Paolo Gabriele, the Pope’s butler, who the Vatican said held confidential documents and was suspected of leaking private letters, some of which were addressed to Pope Benedict.
The arrest came a day after the ouster of the president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, amid conflicts over how to bring the secretive institution in line with international transparency standards, and days after the publication of a sensational book, Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI, in which journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, aided by ‘‘Maria’’, discloses a huge cache of private Vatican correspondence, many revealing clashes over management at the bank and allegations of corruption and cronyism.
The letters, which have made their way to the Italian media in recent months, draw a portrait of an ancient institution in chaotic disarray, where factions vie for power, influence and financial control.
Yeesh, reality is going for death tropes.