The Vatican has arrested two members of a commission Pope Francis set up to study reforms, on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Reuters website reports today (November 2, 2015).
Spanish Monsignor 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 yesterday. Vallejo Balda, 54, was believed to be the highest-ranking member of the Vatican's central bureaucracy -- known as the Curia -- ever to have been arrested.
Chaouqui, 33 -- whose sexy photo of herself on her Facebook page raised Vatican eyebrows when she was appointed to the commission in 2013 -- was released today after she agreed to cooperate with the investigation, the Vatican said.
The two arrests come just days before two Italian authors are due to release books that their publishers say will reveal new evidence of scandals in the Vatican and alleged conspiracies by the old guard to undermine Francis's reform efforts.
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