The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is finally spilling the beans
The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted archives are full of secrets: It has opened up the files of controversial Second World War-era Pope Pius XII to scholars, and changed the official name to remove the word “secret” from the title of the archive.
But myth and mystery have persisted – until now.
The long-time prefect of what is now named the Vatican Apostolic Archive, Archbishop Sergio Pagano, is spilling the beans for the first time, revealing some of the secrets he has uncovered in the 45 years he has worked in one of the world’s most important, and unusual, repositories of documents.
In a new book-length interview titled , to be published on Tuesday, Pagano divulges some of the unknown, lesser-known and behind-the-scenes details
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