(R to L) Spanish Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda, Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui and journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi attend a trial at the Vatican November 24, 2015. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has commuted the jail sentence of a Spanish priest who was convicted of leaking Vatican documents and ordered that he be released from jail, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
Monsigor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda was sentenced to 18 months in a Vatican jail last July at the end of a trial dubbed "Vatileaks II".
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