The Vatican has hired Fox News reporter Greg Burke to serve as its senior communications adviser amidst a widening communications crisis.Pope Benedict XVI’s butler was arrested late last month on suspicion of leaking confidential documents that allege corruption and exposed papal power struggles to Italian journalists. The Vatican’s bank also faces its own scandal. The bank’s president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was dismissed over his erratic behavior and failure to attend board meetings, the New York Times reports. In short, Burke has his work cut out for him.
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