VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Register
BY EDWARD PENTIN 07/06/2016
Vatican judges are expected to rule on ‘Vatileaks 2’ Thursday afternoon after three final days of hearings in which lawyers for the prosecution and the defense presented their closing statements.
Since last December, the Vatican has been trying five people accused of illegally obtaining and leaking confidential Vatican documents which were later published in two books.
The defendants comprise former Vatican officials Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui — both members of the COSEA Commission which studied possible reforms of the Vatican financial system in 2013-2014 — and a third official, Nicola Maio, who was an assistant to Msgr. Vallejo.
Along with these three, the authors of the books, journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi. have also been tried for obtaining and publishing the confidential documents. The Vatican was keen to stress today that the trial is not in any way “against the freedom of the press”, but rather about alleged complicity in the leaking of confidential documents by the accused.
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