ROME – A former Vatican employee has been arrested in a sting operation and is currently behind bars awaiting formal charges for trying to sell back a manuscript he allegedly pilfered from the archives of St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican has confirmed, after the incident was first reported in the Italian newspaper Domani.
At least one individual with knowledge of the manuscript in question, however, has raised doubts about whether it actually ever was part of the basilica’s archives, reports Crux.
