Vatileaks, Part 2

“Radix omnium malorum cupiditas est” (“The love of money is the root of all evils”). —St. Paul, First Letter to Timothy, 6:10; a more idiomatic understanding of this phrase is, “For every possible kind of evil can be motivated by the love of money,” meaning, greed can lead to any number of different kind of evils, not that all evil is rooted in the love of money

And here we go again…

More arrests in the Vatican over leaked documents…

November in Rome begins with the news that two people who have worked in the Vatican have been arrested by Vatican police on the charge of leaking confidential Vatican documents, especially regarding Vatican finances, to journalists.

In a statement early this afternoon in Rome, the Vatican said the two — a laywoman, Doctor Francesca Chaouqui (photo here) and a Spanish monsignor, the Rev. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda (photo below) — had been questioned over the weekend, and that prosecutors for the Holy See had upheld the arrests.

The news comes on the eve of the publication of two new books about the Vatican’s finances, which promise astonishing revelations based on secret documents.

Therefore, many are speculating that these arrests are directly related to the publication of these two books, that is, that the two people arrested are suspected by the Vatican of being the sources for at least some of the documents about to be made public.  (more...)

Vatileaks, Part 2

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