The pope's butler has been arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking a large number of confidential letters addressed to Benedict XVI which have lifted the lid on alleged corruption and nepotism at the Holy See. . . .

 

The Rome-born butler is now in custody in the Vatican's cells.

"We have cells," said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi. "It is a simple structure, since this is a small state, but we have them."