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• Mormon church lowers age limit for missionaries
• Pope's Butler to Serve Time in the Comfort of His Home
• Pope's butler convicted in leaks, given 18 months
• Pope's butler convicted in papal leaks case, sentenced to 18 months in prison
• Vatican sex crimes prosecutor named auxiliary bishop of Malta
• Pope Benedict likely to pardon his former butler, Vatican says
• Pope butler to court: "I don't feel like a thief"
• Pope's butler awaits verdict in papal leaks trial

Mormon church lowers age limit for missionaries Posted: 06 Oct 2012 01:59 PM PDT The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women, the faith's president announced Saturday.

Pope's Butler to Serve Time in the Comfort of His Home Posted: 06 Oct 2012 10:19 AM PDT Paolo Gabriele, the 46-year-old former butler to the Pope, is going to serve his 18 month punishment for stealing confidential documents in the safety of his Vatican City apartment. A Vatican City judge sentenced Gabriele to 18 months in prison on Saturday, even though the Vatican doesn't actually have a prison. He would normally serve the time in an Italian facility, but for now Gabrielle's going to be able to serve out his sentence from the comfort of his apartment. ...

Pope's butler convicted in leaks, given 18 months Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:11 AM PDT The pope's butler was convicted Saturday of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist in the gravest Vatican security breach in recent memory. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but the Vatican said a papal pardon was likely.

Pope's butler convicted in papal leaks case, sentenced to 18 months in prison Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - The pope's butler was convicted Saturday of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist in the gravest Vatican security breach in recent memory. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but the Vatican said a papal pardon was likely.

Vatican sex crimes prosecutor named auxiliary bishop of Malta Posted: 06 Oct 2012 05:51 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor, who for a decade oversaw the Vatican's response to cases of priests who sexually abuse children, is leaving the Vatican and returning to his native Malta to be an auxiliary bishop.

Pope Benedict likely to pardon his former butler, Vatican says Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:26 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will "most likely" pardon his former butler, a Vatican spokesman said on Saturday after Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing sensitive documents. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi also told reporters the court reached its verdict in "full independence" without any interference from Vatican officials. (Reporting by Naomi O'Leary)

Pope butler to court: "I don't feel like a thief" Posted: 06 Oct 2012 03:03 AM PDT The pope's butler has insisted that he's no thief and that he leaked the pope's private correspondence to a journalist out of a "visceral love" for the Catholic Church and its pope.

Pope's butler awaits verdict in papal leaks trial Posted: 05 Oct 2012 11:29 PM PDT A verdict in the case of the pope's butler accused of leaking papal documents may help close one of the most damaging scandals of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy. But even after Paolo Gabriele's fate is decided by a Vatican tribunal Saturday, a core question will remain: Did he really act alone in exposing one of the most secretive institutions in the world?

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