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moobu2

(4,822 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:17 AM Mar 2012

Vatican launches criminal probe into unauthorised leaks

The Vatican has opened a rare criminal investigation into unauthorised leaks to the Italian media of confidential documents, its official paper reports.
The leaks describe alleged corruption, mismanagement, and internal conflicts among top officials.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano made the announcement together with an official admission that there have been "grave acts of disloyalty" .
The "Vatileaks" scandal, as it is known, has filled Italian media.
It has dominated the columns of Italian newspapers and magazines and been the subject of TV programmes, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports.
The leak of a string of highly sensitive internal documents from inside the Vatican's Secretariat of State, including personal letters to Pope Benedict XVI, are an evident embarrassment to the pope, our correspondent says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-europe-17410490

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Vatican launches criminal probe into unauthorised leaks (Original Post) moobu2 Mar 2012 OP

Video: "Vatican Police Show Off New Hardware on Feast Day." Impressive display of force. leveymg Mar 2012 #1

Wow. Near end says '...financial and commercial..' I read the YT comments, too. Double Wow. freshwest Mar 2012 #2

Yeah, that's what they need to investigate. Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #3

Hey, they have their priorities. trotsky Mar 2012 #5

"grave acts of disloyalty" Boojatta Mar 2012 #4

When the church feels they are more important than god Angry Dragon Mar 2012 #6

I think its not that, they think their chuch is more important than human beings... Humanist_Activist Mar 2012 #7

Any god that needs people to protect him/her Angry Dragon Mar 2012 #8

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

1. Video: "Vatican Police Show Off New Hardware on Feast Day." Impressive display of force.

Reply to moobu2 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:31 AM

Mar 2012

You have to wonder about the thoroughness of these investigations.

http://www.romereports.com/palio/vatican-police-show-off-new-hardware-on-feast-day-english-5040.html

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

2. Wow. Near end says '...financial and commercial..' I read the YT comments, too. Double Wow.

Reply to leveymg (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:49 AM

Mar 2012

Big world out there, huh. Was thinking of posting 'No one expects the Spanish Inquistion,' but the elements are in place and intractable to secular reasoning, anyway.

Not that funny. But the group in the video you posted was interesting with aspects of energy conservation, how everyone was regimented. Their version of a police force is nothing like Earl G's Pic of the Moment:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101717290

Thanks for a look into a world many of us have never known much about, who hold many of the reins of the power in the USA right now.

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)

3. Yeah, that's what they need to investigate.

Reply to moobu2 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:51 AM

Mar 2012

Don't do anything about your shitty organization, though.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

5. Hey, they have their priorities.

Reply to Goblinmonger (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 08:16 PM

Mar 2012

Raping kids is obviously not as big a deal as telling people that kids were raped.

Boojatta

(12,231 posts)

4. "grave acts of disloyalty"

Reply to moobu2 (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 11:32 AM

Mar 2012

Were the acts grave enough that God is upset about them?

Also, how does God feel about disloyalty to God, especially from an organization that claims to express God's views?