The ‘Vatileaks’ scandal has shaken Vatican City, the Holy See and the entire Roman Catholic Church. Vatileaks is the expression in world media used to cover a series of leaks of secret Vatican documents published in the Italian press and, recently, in a book written by the Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi (Sua Santità. Le Carte Segrete di Benedetto XVI, Milano, 2012). The validity of the published material, the most relevant at least, is undisputed. Leaked documents offer a simply dreadful representation of the Church and shed a sinister light on the most embarrassing affairs involving the Roman Curia.
