Vatican tribunal finds Italian journalist guilty of slander
November 03, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: A Vatican tribunal has found an Italian historian guilty of slander against two Vatican officials.
Nicola Giampaolo—who had served as postulator for the cause of beatification of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro—had charged in a television interview that Cardinal Angelo Becciu and Father Boguslaw Turek had offered him bribes to advance the cause. (Both clerics were, at the time, officials of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.) The Vatican court ruled that the allegations were false.
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