VATICAN CITY
Daily Mail

By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE

The controversial ‘Vatileaks’ trial has been postponed after the Spanish priest who confessed to leaking classified Vatican documents claimed he had slept with one of his co-accused.

Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda told the court in the Vatican that he had a night of passion with Italian PR expert Francesca Chaouqui, who then took to social media to not only deny that they had slept together, but out him as gay.

Married Chaouqui, who is six months pregnant, refuted Vallejo Balda’s claims, and said that on the night in question, the Spanish priest had confessed his homosexuality to her.

The trial has been adjourned until April 6 after Chaouqui was advised to rest by doctors after Thursday’s session.

Chaouqui, a former member of an economic reform commission established by Pope Francis, is accused of conspiring with Vallejo Balda and his assistant…