VATICAN CITY
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By Richard Allen Greene
(CNN) — Pope Benedict XVI’s butler will be charged with aggravated theft over the leaking of hundreds of secret papers from the pope’s personal apartment to an Italian journalist, a Vatican spokesman announced Monday.
A second man, Vatican IT expert Claudio Sciarpelletti, will be charged with aiding the butler, Paolo Gabriele, according to the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman.
Gabriele, one of the pope’s closest personal assistants, was arrested in May on suspicion of passing the papers to an Italian journalist.
The scandal has rocked the Catholic Church hierarchy.
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