Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, dies aged 54
Paolo Gabriele died on Tuesday after a long illness, leaving behind a wife and three children.
By Vatican News
Paolo Gabriele, the former butler of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, died on Tuesday after a long illness, aged 54.
After several years of service to the Holy See as part of the Pontifical Family, Mr. Gabriele, in 2012, became the protagonist of the first “Vatileaks”, the theft of confidential documents later published in a book.
He was judged and found guilty by the Tribunal of Vatican City State in October 2012.
On 22 December of the same year, he received the forgiveness and official pardon of Pope Benedict XVI. He later served at the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-11/paolo-gabriele-butler-benedict-xvi-death.html
‘Vatileaks’ butler who betrayed Pope Benedict dead at 54 after illness
By Tamar Lapin November 24, 2020 | 4:17pm
Pope Benedict’s former butler Paolo Gabriele — who triggered the infamous “Vatileaks” scandal — has died at 54, officials said Tuesday.
The Vatican’s official media said Gabriele died in a Rome hospital following a long illness, without elaborating. He leaves behind his wife and three children.
Gabriele worked as Benedict’s private butler for several years before he stole confidential letters and other documents from the pontiff’s desk and leaked them to an Italian journalist in 2012 — who then went on to write a tell-all book about corruption in the Catholic Church.
Gabriele was arrested in May 2012 after police found an “enormous” stash of documents in his Vatican City apartment.
The former butler admitted that he’d given the papers to reporter Gianluigi Nuzzi because he believed the pope wasn’t being informed of the “evil and corruption” in the Vatican — and that exposing it publicly would get the church back on track.
He was convicted on charges of theft and served a few months of his 18-month sentence in a tiny jail cell at the Vatican police barracks, before Benedict pardoned him at Christmas.
It’s believed the scandal played a small part in Benedict’s decision to resign a few months later.
After he was released, Gabriele went on to work at a Vatican-owned pediatrics hospital in Rome.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/vatileaks-butler-who-betrayed-pope-benedict-dies-at-54-after-illness/
One of the Vatican's "Inner Families" aka the Black Nobility passes away after a long undisclosed illness.
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