VATICAN CITY
Premier
Wed 18 May 2016
By Hannah Tooley
The Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin will not be testifying during the Vati-leaks scandal that has embroiled the heart of Catholicism in recent months.
It had been that he may have testified on behalf of Francesca Chaouqui.
She was a Vatican public relations expert and has been charged with leaking confidential documents, a crime under Vatican law, and faces up to eight years behind bars.
She denies the charges.
The court ruled earlier in May that three witnesses – Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state; Cardinal Santos Abril Castello, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major; and Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner – would not be testifying on behalf of Ms Chaouqui.
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