VATICAN CITY
Today
DECEMBER 21, 2016
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has commuted the jail sentence of a Spanish priest who was convicted of leaking Vatican documents and ordered that he be released from jail, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
Monsigor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda was sentenced to 18 months in a Vatican jail last July at the end of a trial dubbed “Vatileaks II”.
A statement said the pontiff took the step because Vallejo Balda, 55, had already served more than half of his sentence. He would leave the employ of the Vatican and be put under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Astorga in his native Spain.
It said he would be under “provisional liberty” for the rest of his sentence, without elaborating. It gave no further details.
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