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@StefanoPitrelli è corrispondente del Washington Post dal 2012, mentre in Italia scrive per l’HuffPost. È autore per Rizzoli con Gianni Del Vecchio di “Occulto Italia” -- libro indagine sul lobbismo delle sette vincitore del Premio Estense 2011. Crede ancora nella verità e nella giustizia.

New books allege mismanagement, excess at the Vatican

By Anthony Faiola & Stefano Pitrelli / Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey in Washington contributed to this report.

The Vatican faced fresh accusations of mismanagement, excess and resistance to change as details from two new books emerged Tuesday, a day after the Holy See announced the arrest of two insiders on suspicion of leaking internal information.

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Vatican arrests two advisers over alleged links to leaked documents

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Rome and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.

The arrest of two Vatican insiders on suspicion of leaking damaging internal documents signaled the return Monday of an unwelcome guest at the Holy See’s ancient gates: scandal.

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Meet the 82-year-old progressive German cardinal who has an outsized influence on Pope Francis

By Michelle Boorstein & Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report.

German Cardinal Walter Kasper arrives at Clementina Hall to exchange Christmas greetings with Pope Francis in 2014 in Vatican City.  (Sipa USA)

In the coming weeks or months, Pope Francis is expected to come out with a significant teaching on how the Catholic Church should respond to the new shapes and challenges of the modern family. As he prepares the document, there may be few individuals as important in understanding the pope’s thinking as an 82-year-old German theologian named Cardinal Walter Kasper.

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