In the wake of several high-profile and salacious scandals alleging corruption and sexual politics inside the Vatican, Rome was rocked again Thursday by an Italian magazine's claims of an extensive program of secret wiretapping and surveillance inside the holy city-state.
Panorama magazine claimed that Vatican authorities tapped phone calls and read the emails of Church officials as part of an investigation into the so-called Vatileaks scandal, according to a translation by The Telegraph.
The damaging Vatileaks affair came to a head in May of 2012, when then-Pope Benedict's butler Paolo Gabriele was arrested and charged with leaking hundreds of internal documents to journalists. On Monday, the Vatican said the Vatileaks investigation report results were to remain confidential, a step unlikely to quell the rampant speculation and rumors swirling about its contents.
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