VATICAN CITY
Rome Reports
[with video]
August 6, 2012. (Romereports.com) The scandal known as Vatileaks that shook hierarchy of the Catholic Church has been a long story with many details. Here is a look back at how it all started and where the case stands now.
On January 25, the Italian television program known as ‘The Untouchables’ first revealed the letters written by the Vatican official, Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, in which he complained to the Pope that many of the construction and work projects payed for by the Holy See were being charged much more than a normal price. He was right, but his complaints upset many inside the Roman Curia.
In response, the Pope decided to send Viganò to the United States as a nuncio. Afterward, in another letter, he asked the Pope that his new position not be seen as a retaliation, he then named some of those who opposed his management of the Vatican State. Quien?
The next day, on January 26, the Vatican spokesperson, Federico Lombardi, made a statement expressing his “bitterness over the release of classified documents” and left open the possibility of legal action.
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