Ratzinger Was Afraid: The Secret Documents, The Money And The Scandals That Overwhelmed The Pope by Nuzzi Gianluigi

Kindle: The news of Benedict XVI stepping down has come as a shock.

Perhaps the world will never know the real reasons behind a choice that will forever remain indelibly written in the history of the Church.

The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, has decided to reveal the thorny issues within the Roman Curia and handed me dozens of documents that the author has now published along with his research and investigations in Ratzinger Was Afraid: The Secret Documents, The Money And The Scandals That Overwhelmed The Pope (2013).

“Paolo, are you afraid?” – the author, Nuzzi Gianluigi, asked the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, one day - “Yes, I am afraid – he answered – I am afraid that the Pope doesn’t have the strength to overcome this adversity, to cast the moneychangers from the temple.”

Shortly thereafter, the mayor of Milan, one of the most important cities of Italy, also met the Pope at a ceremony. Very concerned, he too revealed the detail of that encounter to Gianluigi: “I am struck by that look, Benedict XVI is afraid,…”. “Afraid of what?..” Gianluigi asked him.

“I was very ill at ease, here was Ratzinger talking to me like a frightened man. You know, we had set out some chairs in the sacristy of the Duomo, one for him, one for Cardinal Scola and another one for me. Shortly before the ceremony the Vatican informed us that another Cardinal would also be present.”

This book will change the history of the Church.

About the author: Gianluigi Nuzzi is an Italian journalist, writer, and television host/writer. He is the author of eight investigative books including His Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI. Since 2013 he has hosted Quarto gradi on Rete 4, a program focused on major news stories that fascinate and divide public opinion. He considers himself a Roman Catholic.