Vatileaks trial: Two guilty of leaking secret documents

Journalists escape conviction for publishing details of alleged corruption in the Catholic Church

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PR consultant Francesca Chaouqui outside the courthouse in the Vatican
(Image credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

A Vatican court has found a priest and a PR consultant guilty of leaking confidential documents to journalists.

Three others caught up in the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal, including the journalists, Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi, were cleared as the judges declared they did not have jurisdiction to try them.

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