ROME
Reuters
By Philip Pullella | ROME
The woman convicted of helping leak Vatican documents says in a new book that an official in a key office of the Holy See left her secret messages in the confession box of a Rome church during the trial.
The episode is one new element in the book “In Peter’s Name”, by Francesca Chaouqui, who got a 10-month suspended sentence at the end of a sensational eight-month trial dubbed “Vatileaks 2” last July. [nL8N19T29C]
She describes a Vatican where infighting and resistance to Pope Francis’s reforms is rife.
Asked for a comment on the book, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said: “We’re not losing sleep over it”.
Much of the financial information in her book has already reported in two books published in 2015 that contained information leaked by a Vatican official. Chaouqui was convicted of being an accessory.
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