VATICAN CITY
Catholic Herald (UK)
by Cindy Wooden
posted Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016
Nicola Maio said he was put under ‘psychological pressure’ while working on the commission set up to investigate Vatican finances
The man who served as executive secretary of a commission Pope Francis established to study Vatican finances said he never gave documents of any kind to Italian journalists and, in fact, met the two reporters only when he and they entered a Vatican courtroom to face charges connected to the leaking of the documents.
Nicola Maio, former executive secretary and assistant to Spanish Mgr Lucio Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, testified at the criminal trial in the Vatican on April 11.
Maio is on trial along with the monsignor and Francesca Chaouqui, a member of the former Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See, for “divulging news and documents concerning fundamental interests” of the Vatican.
In addition, the Vatican has charged two Italian journalists — Gianluigi Nuzzi, author of Merchants in the Temple, and Emiliano Fittipaldi, author of Avarice of soliciting the documents and exercising pressure on the defendants, especially Mgr Vallejo Balda.
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