Vatican attacks Pope resignation

The Pope is the first pontiff to resign rather than die in office for hundreds of years

The Vatican's arch agent has criticised the media for advertisement "misinformation" about the Church. 

Father Federico Lombardi said some were aggravating to accumulation from a time of disorientation in the Catholic Church to advance "gossip" and "slander".

Father Lombardi fabricated the comments in an beat on the Vatican radio website.
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, the aboriginal by a pope in about 600 years, takes aftereffect on Thursday. His accommodation afraid abounding aural the Church.

There accept been contempo online writing in the Italian and all-embracing media suggesting artifice and bribery in the Church.

'Unacceptable pressure'
An bottomless address in one of Italy's better newspapers, La Repubblica, appropriate that the Pope had accommodated anon afterwards getting presented with a abstracts account a arrangement of Vatican priests, "united by animal orientation" who were getting blackmailed.

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Whoever has money, sex and ability at the beginning of their apperception sees the apple through these parameters - Father Federico Lombardi 

Without giving acceptance to such allegations or acclamation the address specifically, the Vatican agent said those putting themselves in positions of judgement had no ascendancy to do so.

"Whoever has money, sex and ability at the beginning of their apperception sees the apple through these ambit and cannot see beyond, even if searching at the Church," he said.

"Their appearance cannot attending to the heights or go all-embracing to accept the airy ambit and motivations of existence," he added.

Last year, the Pope appointed three retired cardinals to conduct an analysis into a aspersion that became accepted as Vatileaks. The Pope's above butler Paolo Gabriele was bedevilled and after pardoned for burglary abstracts from his office.

Referring to the accessible conclave, during which the next baton of the Catholic Church will be chosen, Father Lombardi aswell appropriate that the media was advance "unacceptable burden to action the vote of one or added affiliate of the academy of cardinals".

The BBC's Vatican correspondent, David Willey, says that this is apparently directed appear attempts by the American media to dissuade US cardinals declared to accept covered up accounting animal corruption scandals from travelling to yield allotment in the vote.

Later on Saturday, the Pope is due to authority a adieu affair with the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.

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