VATICAN CITY
The New York Times
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDONOV. 2, 2015
ROME — The Vatican announced on Monday that two members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to study financial overhauls at the Holy See had been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to journalists.
The arrests come just days before the publication of two books — “Avarizia,” or “Avarice,” by Emiliano Fittipaldi, and “Merchants in the Temple” by Gianluigi Nuzzi — purporting to raise the lid on old and new scandals at the Vatican.
They also immediately added to the intrigue and infighting that appear to be intensifying around Francis, whose push for a more open Roman Catholic Church has met with stiffening resistance from traditionalists within the Vatican and beyond.
The two people arrested — Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and Francesca Chaouqui, a laywoman — were taken into custody by the Vatican police over the weekend, the Vatican said in a statement. Ms. Chaouqui was released on Monday after she agreed to cooperate with the investigation, the Vatican said.
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