What was leaked about the pope

What's it like in jail in the Vatican? Leaks lift lid on Pope's financial fight. Viewpoint: Has Church changed? Balda centre was granted clemency, but "the penalty is not quashed", the Vatican said. Related Topics. Published 7 July Published 18 May Published 24 November Recently, Francis ordered cost cuts to relieve a structural deficit estimated at some 70 million euros.

But the raids and related suspensions, apparently launched due to more recent efforts to recover some of the lost money, were highly unusual for the Vatican and sparked fresh speculation about its Machiavellian turf battles, power struggles and score-settling.

That the alleged leaker remains unknown has added to the mystery surrounding the case, which has implicated high-ranking Vatican cardinals. In this instance, officials have spoken openly of an institutional crisis, particularly over the raid on the financial intelligence unit known as the Financial Information Authority.

The office shares financial information with counterparts in dozens of countries as part of global efforts to crack down on money laundering, tax evasion and terrorist financing. National financial intelligence units might be unwilling to share sensitive information with the Holy See if raids were executed without sufficient cause.

To date, the Vatican hasn't said what, if any, evidence it has of the agency's wrongdoing. Giani's Oct. Featuring the employees' photographs, names and job titles, the directive resembled a wanted poster, even though none of the five was placed under investigation. L'Espresso and its daily newspaper, La Repubblica, published the directive and it was widely redistributed online. They are chosen by lottery for each hearing. And as example serving him at the table, he exchanges words and has a chat and he came to the conclusion that, from those exchanges that the Pope is not as informed as he should be, he does not know things that he should know It adds up to portrait of a pope who is not in control of his own church.

Benedict, now age 85, is clearly frail. He returned just Monday from a three-month summer break at his hillside residence outside Rome. Since he ascended to the papacy in , Benedict has been criticized for being more interested in books than in the business of governing. What seems to have set off the butler is a growing sense of alienation around the pope's second in command, Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, who is effectively the Vatican's prime minister.

Bertone has the pope's trust and runs the day-to-day affairs at the Vatican on the pope's behalf. The scandal, known as "Vatileaks," built this spring as more and more confidential papal documents began appearing in Italian newspapers.