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Pope pushed by 'VatiLeaks', says paper
February 23, 2013
ROME: Pope Benedict resigned after an internal investigation informed him about a web of blackmail, corruption and gay sex in the Vatican, Italian media have reported.
Three cardinals were asked by Benedict to verify allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption exposed in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.
The inquiry was led by a three-man panel, headed by a Spanish cardinal, Juliá´n Herranz. Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, former archbishop of Palermo, and Slovak cardinal Jozef Tomko, assisted him.
On December 17, 2012, they handed the pontiff two red-leather bound volumes, almost 300 pages long, containing ''an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish'' inside the Holy See, La Repubblica reported.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/pope-pushed-by-vatileaks-says-paper-20130222-2ewyo.html#ixzz2Ldv62yNJ
