VATICAN CITY
Malta Independent
A court in the Vatican has found a priest and a PR consultant guilty of leaking official documents, while two journalists and a church secretary have been acquitted.
The papers were cited in books, published in 2015, that alleged corruption in the Catholic Church.
Mgr Angelo Lucio Vallejo Balda has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.
His former colleague, Francesca Chaouqui, was given a 10 month suspended sentence.
She gave birth to a son three weeks ago.
The judges said they did not have the authority to try the Italian journalists.
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