Romney's path to White House narrows Implications of trial of pope's ex-butler Previous, high-profile trials involving the Catholic Church never involved a breach of trust with the pope himself. But his ex-butler is on trial for stealing and leaking papal documents, which he's alreay admitted doing. Allen Pizzey reports, then Rebecca Jarivs and Anthony Mason ask Father Robert Gahl, an Associate Professor of Fundamental Ethics at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, about the possible ramifications of a case like this.