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| Vatileaks journalists cleared as PR consultant and priest found guilty | |
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| A Vatican court has cleared twoItalian journalists of printing leaked documents that claimed the Catholic church was riddled with graft, ruling that the Vatican judiciary had no jurisdiction over them. | |
| The court found two other defendants guilty: the public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui and the Spanish priest Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda. Vallejo was given an 18-month sentence and Chaouqui, who has a three-week-old son, received a 10-month suspended sentence. | The court found two other defendants guilty: the public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui and the Spanish priest Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda. Vallejo was given an 18-month sentence and Chaouqui, who has a three-week-old son, received a 10-month suspended sentence. |
| A fifth defendant, Nicola Maio, an assistant to Vallejo, was cleared at the end of an eight-month trial that shed light on the infighting and personality clashes at the heart of the Vatican administration. | A fifth defendant, Nicola Maio, an assistant to Vallejo, was cleared at the end of an eight-month trial that shed light on the infighting and personality clashes at the heart of the Vatican administration. |
| The two reporters, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, published books last year that depicted a Vatican plagued by greed and corruption, and where Pope Francis faced stiff resistance from the old guard to his reform agenda. | |
| Angered by the books’ revelations, Vatican investigators accused Chaouqui, Balda and Maio of leaking confidential documents and said the reporters had tried to reap financial reward from knowingly receiving stolen documents. | |
| Media watchdogs accused the Catholic church of looking to muzzle its opponents and stifle press freedom. | |
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