(23 Oct 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Saint Peter's Basilica seen through chains
2. Mid shot dome of Saint Peter's
3. Wide of Vatican news conference
4. Mid shot Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, sitting at conference desk
5. Close-up print-out of explanation of Paolo Gabriele verdict
6. Close-up of document reading: "Verdict of the State of the Vatican city in the criminal trial for Paolo Gabriele"
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman:
"As I said, I cannot foresee how and when it will happen. Many have not noticed this, but have noticed only that I said that the pardon was possible. My answer is still the same. It is surely possible that the pope may give the pardon, but nobody knows when because it is a personal act of pardon from the pope, so when the pope will tell us, we will know it, if he will decide so."
8. Mid shot of journalist
9. Close-up of verdict reading: "Paolo Gabriele is guilty."
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman:
"If there will be a detention it's likely that it will be inside the Vatican."
11. Mid shot of journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman:
"The cells have been prepared inside the barracks of the Gendarmes, the big building behind Sant'Anna gate."
13. Mid shot papal office
14. Wide pan left of Saint Peter's Square
15. Mid shot tourists and police car
16. Wide of Saint Peter's Square
17. Mid shot Saint Peter's dome
STORYLINE
The Vatican tribunal that convicted the pope's ex-butler of stealing private papal correspondence sharply condemned the theft on Tuesday as causing "reprehensible" damage to the pontiff, the Holy See and the entire Catholic Church, and said investigations were continuing.
The three-judge tribunal issued its written explanation of how it reached its 6 October verdict against Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted of aggravated theft and sentenced to 18 months in prison, currently being served under house arrest.
Gabriele confessed to photocopying papal documents and giving them to an Italian journalist, saying Pope Benedict XVI wasn't being informed of the "evil and corruption" around him and that he believed that exposing the problems publicly would put the church back on the right track.
The revelations of petty bureaucratic infighting, intrigue and allegations of corruption and homosexual liaisons marked the biggest Vatican security breach in modern times.
Noting what they called Gabriele's "simplistic" intellectual capacity, the judges acknowledged that he had thought he was doing the right thing by leaking the documents.
But they said Gabriele's crime was a "reprehensible" violation of trust that damaged the pope himself and the rights of the Holy See, the Vatican City state and the entire Catholic Church.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, noted that the investigation into Gabriele remained open and that prosecutors could charge him with other crimes.
Lombardi repeated that Benedict had the authority to pardon Gabriele. Previously Lombardi had said a papal pardon was "concrete, likely" - though on Tuesday he was less certain.
"It is surely possible that the pope may give the pardon, but nobody knows when because it is a personal act of pardon from the pope, so when the pope will tell us, we will know it, if he will decide so" he said.
Prosecutors have a few more days to decide whether or not to appeal the sentence, as they can do in the Vatican. Gabriele's attorney has decided not to appeal.
Once the deadline passes, Gabriele will begin serving his sentence in a Vatican detention facility
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