‘We must stop leaking secrets to the media’

Pope Francis must end the scandal of Church secrets being leaked to newspapers, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said, underlining one of the challenges facing the new Roman Catholic leader.

Pope emeritus Benedict, who stepped down last month, had to deal with the “Vatileaks” case in which his butler was convicted of stealing personal papal documents and passing them to the media.

The documents alleged corruption within the Vatican and infighting between senior prelates over the running of the Vatican bank and several projects in Italy.