梵蒂岡逮捕兩名泄密嫌疑人大綱

The Vatican arrested a Spanish priest and a laywoman suspected of stealing confidential documents and leaking them to the media, the Holy See acknowledged Monday.

The two, who served on a special commission established by Pope Francis to study economic reform of the Vatican, were arrested and interrogated over the weekend, according to a statement.

Francesca Chaouqui, the laywoman, was released Monday after she agreed to cooperate with the probe. The status of Spanish priest Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda was unclear.

French news agency AFP noted the incident is the Vatican's second leak scandal in three years. The butler to Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted in 2012 of stealing the now-emeritus pontiff's private papers and leaking them to a journalist.

Reuters reported books by two Italian authors, containing new evidence on past Vatican scandals, are scheduled for release this week.羅馬教廷星期一承認，梵蒂岡逮捕了一名西班牙神父和一名女信徒，他們涉嫌竊取機密材料並透露給媒體。

根據一份聲明，這兩個人在教宗方濟各爲研究梵蒂岡經濟改革而設立的一個特別委員會工作。他們在本週末被逮捕並受到審訊。

女信徒弗朗西斯卡·沙努基星期一在同意配合調查後獲釋。但是，西班牙神父魯西奧·安格爾·瓦列霍·巴爾達的情況尚不明瞭。

法新社指出，這一事件是梵蒂岡三年來第二起外泄醜聞。現已退休的教宗本篤十六世的侍從加布裏埃勒2012年因竊取教宗私人文件並將其泄露給一名記者而被判罪。

據路透社報道，計劃於本週出版的兩名意大利作家的書籍包含了梵蒂岡以往醜聞的新證據。