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• Pope pardons Vatican butler
• Pope visits jailed butler to grant pre-Christmas pardon
• Rebels threaten to storm 2 Syrian Christian towns
• Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents
• Pope grants Christmas pardon to ex-butler who stole, leaked documents to expose Vatican 'evil'
• Pardon for pope's butler who stole papers expected

Pope pardons Vatican butler Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:08 PM PST Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, 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.

Pope visits jailed butler to grant pre-Christmas pardon Posted: 22 Dec 2012 08:16 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict made a surprise pre-Christmas visit to the jail holding his former butler on Saturday and pardoned him for stealing and leaking documents that alleged corruption in the Vatican. The pope and Paolo Gabriele spent about 15 minutes together before Gabriele was freed and allowed to return to his wife and children in their Vatican apartment, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said. "What they said to each other will remain a secret between them ... ...

Rebels threaten to storm 2 Syrian Christian towns Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:59 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels have threated to storm two predominantly Christian towns in central Syria if residents do not "evict" government troops they say are using the towns as a base to attack nearby areas.

Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:49 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, 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.

Pope grants Christmas pardon to ex-butler who stole, leaked documents to expose Vatican 'evil' Posted: 22 Dec 2012 04:19 AM PST Pope grants Christmas pardon to ex-butler who stole, leaked documents to expose Vatican 'evil'

Pardon for pope's butler who stole papers expected Posted: 22 Dec 2012 02:29 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has summoned journalists for a briefing on what Italian news reports say is an expected pardon for Pope Benedict XVI'S former butler, who stole the pontiff's personal papers and leaked them in a bid to expose the "evil and corruption" in the Catholic Church.

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