VatiLeaks, as the scandal of the pope's stolen correspondence came to be known, exposed the church bureaucracy's entrenched opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's fledgling effort to carve out a legacy as a reformer against the backdrop of a global child sex abuse scandal and the continued dwindling of his flock.
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The letters showed how Pope Benedict XVI, seen in 2011, was no match for a culture that rejected even a modicum of transparency and preferred a damage-control campaign that diverted attention from the institution's fundamental problems.
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Pope Benedict XVI's apartment is seen on Feb. 11, the evening after he announced his resignation. His correspondence was stolen from his apartment by his butler, who passed the information along to an Italian journalist, who published the letters.
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The moon rises near St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Sine the VatiLeaks scandal, the Holy See responded by beefing up its public relations department and putting an emphasis on the transparency of the butler's trial.
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Lightning strikes St. Peter's Dome at the Vatican on Feb. 11, the day Pope Benedict XVI announced he would resign as leader of the Catholic Church, citing his age and the pressures of the job.
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A 2010 photo shows Paolo Gabriele (front left) sitting beside the driver of the popemobile with Pope Benedict XVI being driven on St. Peter's Square. Gabriele, the pope's butler, would later be convicted of stealing Benedict's correspondence.
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In March 2012, Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile wearing a Mexican sombrero as he arrives to celebrate Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico.
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Paolo Gabriele, the pope's former butler, arrives to take up his new social work job at a pediatric hospital in Rome on Feb. 13. He made no statement or comments to reporters as he arrived for his new duties. Gabriele, who was given an 18-month sentence October 2012 in the Vatileaks case, was pardoned by the pope just before Christmas.
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Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi used the letters he got from the pope's butler to write "His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Pope Benedict XVI," a blockbuster book published last year.
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In November, Pope Benedict XVI elevated six new cardinals from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States during a consistory ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Photo by Guido MARZILLA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is secretary of state for the Vatican, the pope's number two person. While Benedict was the public face of the universal church, Bertone has been the private power broker who runs the Vatican on a daily basis.
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These are a few of the Roman Catholic clergy from Latin America cited as being possible candidates to be the next Pope: from left, Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, Sao Paulo Archbishop Odilo Scherer and Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri.
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Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, left, and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano are seen at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in February. Bertone has worked diligently to consolidate power. His allies control the church's main financial institutions, prompting one official to write in a leaked document that traditional checks and balances had been ignored.
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Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi meets with journalists at the Vatican on Feb.12. Lombardi says the resigning Pope Benedict XVI will play no role in the selection of his successor.
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Vatican officials charged with running the church shrugged off the VatiLeaks scandal. "They are little things, pebbles in the shoe that hurt so much and seem to prevent you from going forward," said Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo. "If one looks at the act of betrayal, it is in itself a grave act, even more so because it is near the apex of the church. But what does this tell us? It tells us only about the fragility of a person or of some people."
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U.S. Archbishop James Michael Harvey, center, stands during the pontif's weekly general audience on Oct. 31, 2012, at St. Peter's Square. He was made cardinal the next month, though as the head of the papal household, Harvey had overseen Gabriele, and his new assignment seemed a classic example of promoveatur ut amoveatur — promote to remove.
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An image of Pope Benedict XVI is seen at St. Paul's Outside the Walls Basilica in Rome. Whoever he may be, the 266th pope will inherit a gerontocracy obsessed with turf and Italian politics, uninterested in basic management practices and hostile to reforms.
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