Pope Benedict XVI resigned after an internal investigation informed him about a web of blackmail, corruption and gay sex in theVatican, Italian media reports say.
A team of three cardinals were asked by Benedict to verify allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption exposed in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.
In December, they handed the pontiff a large portfolio of papers which was “an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish” inside the Holy See, La Repubblica said.
