One of the safest places I could have imagined has been burgled? I would make you guess, but if you read the headline you already know. The Vatican is the location and the thief turns out to have been the Pope’s butler.

A Vatican judge ordered Pope Benedict XVI's former butler and another Vatican employee to stand trial for the alleged theft of confidential papal documents that scandalized the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. As reported in online.wsj.com.

The thief, the Pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele was charged with aggravated theft. The 45-year-old Gabriele used his position as a member of the pope's household staff to purloin a cache of secret.

Also charged was 48-year-old Claudio Sciarpelletti, a Holy See computer technician. The butler claims he took the documents from the papal apartments because he feared the pope's advisers were keeping him "uninformed or misinformed" about tensions in church hierarchy. The then-butler photo-copied the documents and leaked them to an Italian journalist because he wanted to expose corruption everywhere in the church.

The butler truly believed he was God’s messenger sent to expose the corruption in the church.

Gabriele is under house arrest, faces up to six years in prison if he is convicted. This is shameful behavior by an employee living in a most-Holy place. I hope Gabriele is forced by Italian authorities to take a theft class. Do you think that would help?