The Vatican Leaks Scandal Rumbles On

Since the end of January this year, the State of the Vatican City has been rocked by a series of leaks to Italian media organisations and journalists. Once famed for its Omerta-like code of secrecy, the leaks have demonstrated that all is not well within the walls of the Vatican, or indeed in the wider world of the Catholic Church.

Known as “Vatileaks”, the scandal started when an Italian television program broadcast private correspondence from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former deputy governor of Vatican City, to Pope Benedict XVI and his Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

The letters concerned allegations of corruption and cronyism against Cardinal Bertone and others inside the Roman Curia, the official name of the Vatican administration.

In his role as deputy governor, Archbishop Vigano discovered the Curia were wasting millions of Euros through overpayment of various goods and services – always to the same companies. In a letter dated April 4th 2011, the Archbishop wrote:

“evident situations of corruption: Projects always assigned to the same companies at costs that are double what’s charged outside the Vatican.” (1)

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