ROME — Vatican prosecutor , has filed charges against an Roman Catholic blogger, accusing him of “defamation” of Pope Francis as well as divulging private papers.
Marco Felipe Perfetti, a conservative Catholic who writes the blog Silere Non Possum (” I cannot be silent” ), has called the charges against him an attempt at “intimidation”.
The readers of the website wrote this week,” It is no secret that within the Vatican City State there is no security of the freedom of the press, and the task of Silere no squirrel has irritated and continues annoy those who have often acted in the expense of this Express and for their own personal passions.”
According to the media outlet’s website, the Vatican allegedly started judicial trials against Marco Felipe Perfetti by making the allegations public rather than the interested party.
Perfetti has also noted that the jurisdiction over Silere no possum should be that of the Italian citizen and citizen in the Roman Republic rather than the Vatican City State.
According to the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, Silere no squirrel has recently become a significant “point of guide for those who want to know the mysteries and interests of the Holy See.”
Perfetti himself is a Roman prosecutor with “many connections” within the Vatican, according to the content, but he has not yet been officially informed of the judicial proceedings against him despite the hearing scheduled to start this year.
According to the common U. S. based Catholic information outlet The Pillar Catholic, in essence,” The man behind a effectively- known, nicely- read, and nicely- informed Church news website” has been charged with “doing journalism”.
The Vatican should hope the allegations do not go away, The Pillar said, because it is” the worst possible sums the Church could take in an age supposedly committed to clarity and accountability” to convict a journalist of “disrespecting the bishop and exposing function and scandal in the Diocese of Rome.”
The Vatican has threatened legal action against what it perceives to be hostile journalists in the past.
In 2018, the Vatican hired , international law firm Baker McKenzie to force a small Spanish website called InfoVaticana.com to close its doors, allegedly for its occasional critical tone toward aspects of the Francis papacy.
If Infovaticana was not shut down and “its internet domain was transferred to the Vatican,” the company threatened to file a lawsuit.
