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Vatican’s ex-bulter Paolo Gabriele meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican City prison where the pope pardoned his former butler.
AFP

Pope pardons butler as ‘paternal gesture’, expels him from Vatican

The pope has pardoned his former butler, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking secret papal memos, but banished him from the Vatican.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his weekly general audience on at St Peter’s square at the Vatican.
PHILIP PULLELLA

Vatican convicts computer expert in Vatileaks case

A Vatican court has convicted a computer programmer of helping the Pope’s butler leak confidential papers in a scandal that embarrassed the Vatican.

  • Philip Pullella
2 min read
DARIO THUBURN

Pope’s butler sentenced to 18 months over Vatileaks scandal

The pope’s former butler has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing secret documents from the Vatican that revealed fraud and intrigue.

  • Dario Thuburn
4 min read