Then the fraud was revealed, challenging authority from the opposite direction by eroding the credibility of all papal dogma, including proclamations on the official website. (Might vatican.va also be a spoof?) Vaticano.org is a hack on faith.
Doubts over the Times' report had emerged last week when a French soccer website called Cahiers du Football pointed out that many of the details matched a spoof story it had posted more than a day earlier.