VATICAN-RELIGION-POPE-TRIAL

BREAKING NEWS – Vatican City, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler Paolo Gabriele a Christmas pardon, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers, in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. As the Pope stood up to leave, he broke three of Gabriele’s toes when he stepped on his foot. Witnesses are evenly divided if it was done accidentally or on purpose.