Questioning, bugging and even one arrest in Vatican in crackdown on leaks

More little crows in the Vatican: news leak from St. Peter's

Speaking of small or large falls from grace in the Vatican City State and the Roman Curia (, we are publishing a piece of news that has been "hot" since last February 14th.

Wants to know everyone else's business but is less than transparent about his own

The Vatican gendarmerie had been investigating leaks for some time, especially regarding the Office of Works and St. Peter's Basilica (but also the Vicariate) for the benefit - mainly - of a Vatican gossip blog.

It was confirmed to us that Msgr. Mauro N. and the officials Antonio G. and Patrizio M. (secretary of a high prelate of the Basilica) had been suspended and that their computers and cell phones (which had been sealed) were then also seized for the investigations .

We also understand that one of these was detained for a few hours.

All this is also the consequence of a particularly tense climate, since Cardinal Gambetti replaced Cardinal Comastri as Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica.

MiL has also dealt with the "commissariat" of the Chapter of the Vatican Canons, the prohibition of private Masses in the Basilica (including many traditional ones, and obviously those of the Canons) with compulsory replacement of the concelebration, and there there are many complaints about the deterioration of the state of cleanliness and order inside the Basilica itself.

We find, with great sorrow, that the North Korean climate in the Vatican Curia is increasingly worse.

Our sources tell us that, now, every Vatican official has a second mobile and that in the Sacred Palaces they are very careful about the use of e-mail, WhatsApp, Telegram and the content of private telephone conversations. We also know of a regular use of "bugs" for in-house interceptions. To limit the risk of interception, many "private" conversations are therefore held outside the offices and in the bars of Borgo Pio.

The same type of checks and precautions also take place at Casa Santa Marta. Our sources also confirm that a highly placed person in the Vicariate was in fact demoted for the confidences that her maid told Francis (directly or through a third party) regarding the subject's private comments on the Holy Father.

It seems like we are in the Vatican today, like in the film 'The Lives of Others', about East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a life of checks and interceptions, to have control over everything. Like today intra moenia- within the city walls.

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