The publication of new documents Sunday in Italian newspaper La Repubblica indicates that Pope Benedict XVI's butler may not have been the only person with access to the confidential files of the Roman Catholic Church. The butler, Paolo Gabriele, remains in a Vatican jail cell for allegedly leaking confidential documents — but according to an anonymous person who sent La Repubblica the files, far more people were privy to the Church's secret correspondence, and Gabriele was only "the usual scapegoat." The source said his or her intention was to "drive out the real culprits from the Vatican," identified as the Benedict's personal secretary Msgr. Georg Gaenswein and secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The scope of the scandal remains murky amid political infighting in the Church's upper echelons. The Vatican's bank chief was summarily dismissed last month just after Gabriele's arrest.
