Scottish Catholic Observer

“This person now is being questioned by the Vatican magistrates for further information,” Fr Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman said.
He told reporters today that the Vatican gendarmes ‘identified a person illicitly in possession of private documents.’

The committee of three cardinals Pope Benedict XVI appointed in April to look into the leaks had asked the gendarmes to investigate.

Passionist Fr Ciro Benedettini, assistant director of the Vatican press office, said the suspect was ‘under arrest.’ However, he declined to say if or where the person was being held.

Dozens of private letters to Pope Benedict and other confidential Vatican correspondence and reports, including encrypted cables from Vatican embassies around the world, were leaked to an Italian journalist, Gianluigi Nuzzi. He published the documents in a book, Your Holiness, earlier this month.