Blogger on Trial in the Vatican

Italian blogger Marco Felipe Perfetti (SilereNonPossum.it) has been charged by the Vatican with "slandering" Francis and allegedly revealing secrets.

Perfetti is a young Roman lawyer with excellent connections in the Vatican gossip pipeline. He never received a letter from the Vatican, let alone access to the prosecutor's files, even though the trial begins on 12 April, but learned of the accusation from the media.

"I'm completely surprised, also because our office is not in their state, so a rogatory letter should have been sent," he told FattoQuotidiano.it.

The Vatican promoter of justice, Alessandro Diddi, confirmed to Ansa.it the news of the trial and the offence of "defamation". Perfetti has brought the allegations against Father Marko Rupnik to light.

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Liam Ronan
"Truth is a defense. "...charged by the Vatican with "slandering" Francis and allegedly revealing secrets." I presuppose these are 2 separate charges (1) slander; and, (2) revealing secrets. However, if any 'secrets' were revealed and were true, where would the 'slander' be?