Ratzinger was afraid (Adagio) by Nuzzi, Gianluigi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Index Introduction 1. This book

The secret visit Benedict XVI’s desk

2. Code name: Source Mary

Inside Benedict XVI’s chambers The opening of the Vatican doors Meeting the source Dramatic consequences

3. The Dino Boffo case

Get Boffo, a Vatican smear campaign Boffo tells the Pope: “Holy Father, Here are the culprits” The gay slurs against Boffo The pope wants to know Boffo tells Bagnasco: “It’s a huge scam”

4. Corruption in the Sacred Palaces

Bertone dismisses the Vatican’s clean-up man 500,000 euros for a nativity scene The plot against reform Simeon the conspirer: The protégé of Bertone, Geronzi and Bisignani Last appeal to Ratzinger Cardinals and the pope’s housekeeper come to Viganò defence The Vatican’s stonewall response US dioceses are bankrupt

5. The church offerings machine

Payments crisis at the Holy See The man from RAI offers 10,000 euros and asks for an audience A truffle donation The pope’s bank account The IOR’s disgrace

6. The Vatican’s reach on Italian affairs

Tremonti, Bertone, and the real estate tax The Ruby affair and the Pope The secret dinner with the Italian President Berlusconi’s man tries to put in a good word, Popemobiles and spooks

7. Vatican spooks

Following people around Rome Benedict XVI gets advice on the Orlandi case .22 bore bullets Napoleon in the Vatican The Secretariat of State gets snubbed Vatican infighting over a flag

8. Tarcisio Bertone: Ambition at play

“Holy Father, confusion reigns in the heart of the Church” There’s an encyclical to write but Bertone is distracted “Bertone must go” The battle to control the Cattolica’s finances A papal hospital? Corrado Passera gets involved in the San Raffaele affair Father Georg gets a secret dossier Jesuits, the Black Pope and the power of money

9. Communion and Liberation, the Legionaries of Christ, and the Lefebvrists

10. Benedict XVI’s geopolitics

Money flows to the non-Catholic East “Italy risks default, Ratzinger should intervene” “China is at war with us” No Catholic breakthrough in Japan

11. Vatican diplomacy

ETA terrorists ask for the Vatican’s help Murder in an Ecuadorean monastery The mysterious dismissal of the Syrian Monsignor Bertone and the Swedish journalists “Poland is worse than Cuba and Sudan” No prize for the pro-gay marriage US governor The Iranian Ayatollah wants a Papal audience

Benedict XVI’s secret papers Acknowledgements