罗马教廷星期一承认，梵蒂冈逮捕了一名西班牙神父和一名女信徒，他们涉嫌窃取机密材料并透露给媒体。
根据一份声明，这两个人在教宗方济各为研究梵蒂冈经济改革而设立的一个特别委员会工作。他们在本周末被逮捕并受到审讯。
女信徒弗朗西斯卡·沙努基星期一在同意配合调查后获释。但是，西班牙神父鲁西奥·安格尔·瓦列霍·巴尔达的情况尚不明了。
法新社指出，这一事件是梵蒂冈三年来第二起外泄丑闻。现已退休的教宗本笃十六世的侍从加布里埃勒2012年因窃取教宗私人文件并将其泄露给一名记者而被判罪。
据路透社报道，计划于本周出版的两名意大利作家的书籍包含了梵蒂冈以往丑闻的新证据。
The Vatican arrested a Spanish priest and a laywoman suspected of stealing confidential documents and leaking them to the media, the Holy See acknowledged Monday.
The two, who served on a special commission established by Pope Francis to study economic reform of the Vatican, were arrested and interrogated over the weekend, according to a statement.
Francesca Chaouqui, the laywoman, was released Monday after she agreed to cooperate with the probe. The status of Spanish priest Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda was unclear.
French news agency AFP noted the incident is the Vatican's second leak scandal in three years. The butler to Pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted in 2012 of stealing the now-emeritus pontiff's private papers and leaking them to a journalist.
Reuters reported books by two Italian authors, containing new evidence on past Vatican scandals, are scheduled for release this week.
