Pope pardons butler who stole secrets

22/12/12 16:42 CET

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Pope Benedict has pardoned the man who stole his secrets. Papal butler Paolo Gabriele has walked out of his cell in the Vatican a free man after a fifteen- minute visit from the pontiff, and rejoined his wife and three children after three months of an 18-month sentence.

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