The Vatican City State Tribunal has found Nicola Giampaolo guilty of slander and sentenced him to three years and six months in prison.
In a press release from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, dated 30 October, it was announced that the tribunal had found Giampaolo, a historian from Italy’s Puglia region and a journalist by training – and who had served as postulator, the official responsible for guiding a cause for beatification, for the late Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro – guilty of slander.
