VATICAN CITY
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 2, 2015
Reuters
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said today that two members of a commission that Pope Francis set up to study Church reforms had been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to the media.
Spanish priest Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, number two at the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs, and Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui, a public relations expert, were arrested over the weekend, a statement said.
Chaouqui was released on Monday after she agreed to cooperate with the investigation, it said.
Both were members of a commission that Francis set up shortly after his election in 2013 to advise him on economic and bureaucratic reforms in the Vatican administration, or Curia.
The commission completed its work last year and handed its report to the pope.
The twin arrests came just days before two Italian authors were due to release books that their publishers say will reveal new evidence of past scandals in the Vatican.
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