Cocktail was 'religious event' trial told as cardinals stay away

Yahoo News ^ | May 14, 2016

[detective]

Top cardinal Pietro Parolin and two close associates of Pope Francis have sidestepped giving evidence in the controversial and increasingly embarrassing Vatican trial of five people accused of leaking classified Holy See documents.

Vatican number two Parolin, fellow cardinal Santo Abril y Castello and Archbishop Konrad Krajewski had all been asked to give evidence on behalf of one of the accused, PR consultant Francesca Chaouqui.

The three clerics invoked an article of the Vatican's penal code which allows them to decline to testify for professional reasons.

Parolin said in a statement to the latest hearing in the case on Saturday that he had done so because he had "nothing to say regarding the relations between Francesca Chaouqui and (co-accused Spanish priest) Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda", specialist Vatican news agency IMedia reported.

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Several witnesses, including Monsignor Alfredo Abbondi on Saturday, have testified that Chaouqui boasted of having close ties to the Italian secret services and she has depicted a poisonous atmosphere inside a panel created on the express orders of Pope Francis himself.

[DesertRhino]

A Vatican penal code. Vatican trials because someone released some secrets they kept from the world. They even refurbished the old prison cell inside the Vatican.

This does not seem anything like Jesus approach to anything.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And, apparently, within the knowldege of - at the request of? - the present “pope” ..

[DesertRhino]

Very odd. It simply does not square with who they claim to be. This is classic first stone stuff. The church should have thanked the vatileaks man and tried to stop the things he exposed.