So the Vatican will be investigating the allegations of cronyism, of corruption and fiscal mismanagement?
No, indeed, you'd say, if you possessed the slightest bit of knowledge about the Holy See's mindset.
It's the whistleblowers who are going to be outed.
Silence is golden in Vatican City. Anyone trying to save the Catholic Church from the hierarchy has been labeled as disloyal. They broke the Vatican's trust in not keeping the secrets safe, and their revelations have hurt the Pope.
It's not the facts hurting Benedict XVI, no. Everyone loves a CEO who protects the criminal element operating within a multi-national corporation.
Bureaucrats in the Church hierarchy have only to look at all those victims of clerical child abuse who dared to come forward. Look where that led. Never again, says the Vatican. Secrets must be protected at all costs. The laity doesn't need to know anything, as long as they keep sending in their money.
The Vatican police force will conduct the investigation, and they are authorized to prosecute the guilty parties to the full extent of Vatican law.
All of this will end up in newspapers, one way or another. Obviously, no one at the Vatican realizes that the faithful will not view the leaking as a crime, especially in light of the facts that came out about cardinals engaged in power struggles, to say nothing of the Mafia-like running of the city's infrastructure and the enormous funds that ended up in the pockets of a connected few.
The abuse scandal that circles the globe has damaged the Church to no small degree. Punishing the innocent and protecting the guilty yet again won't get those pews back to full on a Sunday, either.
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