Vatican uses Wikipedia to compile cardinals’ biographies

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Vatican uses Wikipedia to compile cardinals’ biographies

Spokesman says website’s use was temporary measure driven by haste, and that official biographies being compiledIts ancient library holds more than 180,000 manuscripts and 1.6m books, and it describes its Secret Archive, which packs priceless documents on to 85km of shelving, as “one of the most important research centres in the world”. The Vatican’s reputation as a font of knowledge was further boosted when Joseph Ratzinger, a former academic and prolific writer, was elected as Pope.