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The Butler Did It: Paolo Gabriele Found Guilty

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The pope’s former butler was found guilty of stealing and leaking Vatican documents. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.

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On a bright Saturday morning in Rome, as the bells of St. Peter’s chimed in the distance, Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s erstwhile butler, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after a Vatican tribunal found him guilty of aggravated theft for stealing private papal documents and leaking them to the...

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