VATICAN CITY
ABC News (United States)
[with video]
By JEFFREY KOFMAN (@JeffreyKofman) and PHOEBE NATANSON
May 28, 2012
He is always at the Pope Benedict XVI’s side.
Butler Paolo Gabriele, helps the Pope dress in the morning and serves him his meals through the day.
But now the Pope’s loyal butler is under arrest, accused of betraying the man he serves by leaking embarrassing confidential Vatican documents to the Italian media.
The arrest has stunned the Vatican, a place very familiar with intrigue, but not public betrayal by someone so close to Pope.
“The fact that this came from somebody who was in the papal apartment and a member of the papal family is great cause for a crisis of consciousness,” said John Allen, with the U.S. National Catholic Reporter.
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