http://atimes.com/2015/11/the-vatican-returns-as-a-global-hotpot-of-political-intrigue/

The Vatican returns as a global hotpot of political intrigue

By Francesco Sisci on November 9, 2015  |  http://atimes.com/2015/11/the-vatican-returns-as-a-global-hotpot-of-political-intrigue/
In the Middle Ages, as personified by the Borgias, the struggle for power in Rome was characterized by poisoning or mayhem behind closed doors. There were no public announcements of such bloodletting. There was only the whisper of rumors in the streets.
Times have apparently changed: Public information or the dissemination of it is now the battlefield for what may amount to an attempted coup d’état in the Vatican.
After a three-year hiatus, the the Holy See is again swamped by a series of scandalous revelations. All appear aimed at shaking papal authority in the Catholic Church, the largest unified religion in the world, to its core.http://atimes.com/2015/11/the-vatican-returns-as-a-global-hotpot-of-political-intrigue/