"The Vatican's Retiring Keeper of Secrets Reveals All"
Archbishop Sergio Pagano, the longtime prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, is retiring and revealing some of the secrets he has uncovered in the 45 years he has worked in the repository, including details about Pope Pius XII, the Galileo affair, and the Vatican's financial relationship with the U.S. church. Pagano criticizes Pius' silence on the Holocaust and questions the incomplete research behind Pius' sainthood cause. He also shares the origins of the financial relationship between the U.S. church and the Vatican and reveals how the original 1530 letter urging Pope Clement VII to grant King Henry VIII an annulment survived Napoleon's seizure of the Vatican archives.