Gianluigi Nuzzi
| Author | Gianluigi Nuzzi |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sua Santità. Le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Chiarelettere |
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Publication date
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2012 |
| Pages | 326 |
| ISBN |
His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI (Italian: Sua Santità. Le carte segrete di Benedetto XVI) is a book published by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, consisting of confidential letters and memos between Pope Benedict XVI and his personal secretary. The letters in the book portray the Vatican as a corrupt hotbed of jealousy, intrigue and underhanded factional fighting. The Italian edition paper-book was translated in 2013, in English language and is now available only in e-book format on Amazon platform. The title of the English ebook is Ratzinger was afraid.
Nuzzi's book reveals details about the Pope's personal finances, and includes tales of bribes made to procure an audience with him. It reproduces confidential letters and memos to and from Benedict and his personal secretary. It contains letters from a very senior Vatican administrator to Pope Benedict in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in higher contract prices. The documents also cover a 2009 scandal concerning the ex-editor of the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, a dinner between Benedict and Italy's president, and a 2011 letter from an Italian talk show host to the pope enclosing a cheque for 10,000 euros for his charity work – and asking for a private audience in exchange. Diplomatic cables include Vatican embassies from Jerusalem to Cameroon, as well as conclusions of the pope's inquiry into the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order - where he is warned that the financial situation of the order, beset by a scandal over its paedophile founder, "while not grave, is serious and pressing".
The documents portray the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in a particularly negative light.
The index of this book:
Inside documents and papers: Secret files of the Pope
Canada.com called it a "controversial new book that portrays the Vatican as a hotbed of jealousy, intrigue and underhanded factional fighting." When first published, the Vatican called the book "criminal" and vowed to take legal action against the author, publisher, and whoever leaked the documents.
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