 But other Curia officials persuaded John Paul that the media had exaggerated the case, and an inquiry would only create more bad publicity.In July 2007 Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) visited the Vatican Secret Archives, and said that upon
In August 2010 Raffaele Cardinal Farina, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, said that Pope John Paul II declined then-Cardinal Ratzinger's request to spend his last years at the Vatican Archives.Cardinal Farina recalled when he was appointed prefect of the Vatican Library in May 1997 having a brief meeting with Cardinal Ratzinger in which he was asked his opinion of Ratzinger joining the team.