VATICAN CITY
Christian Science Monitor
By Nick Squires, Correspondent DECEMBER 7, 2015
VATICAN CITY — The trial of three Vatican officials and two Italian journalists resumed Monday at a tribunal within the stone walls of this tiny city state in a case that uncomfortably pits the Holy See’s interests against Italian press freedoms.
One of the journalist defendants has decried the proceedings as Kafkaesque, and he and other commentators have even invoked the Inquisition.
The two journalists are accused of procuring leaked confidential documents they used as the basis for two bombshell books published last month.
The books, one titled “Avarice” and the other “Merchants in the Temple,” described Vatican financial mismanagement, greed, and the misuse of funds, including the use of money from a charitable foundation to renovate a lavish penthouse apartment for a former Vatican secretary of State.
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