The Vatican's highest court has cleared a Vatican official accused of the crime of solicitation in the confessional.
The Apostolic Signatura said on May 17 that it finished an "administrative penal process" of Fr Hermann Geissler, an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who had been accused of "a grave delict."
Five court members convened on May 15, it said in a communique, and "acquitted the defendant" because the "configuration" or appearance of the alleged crime was not "proven with the moral certitude necessary after a careful examination of the affair."
