This week saw lurid allegations of an affair between the priest and the PR woman at the heart of the scandal known as Vatileaks 2. It’s the latest twist in a tale that raises issues of press freedom and the scale of Francis’ task of rooting out corruption in the Curia Autumn 2015 will not go down in the annals of history as a time when the Vatican was notable for encouraging a free press. During the Synod on the Family, Pope Francis discontinued the Vatican press office’s practice of publishing members’ speeches each day and thus prevented Catholics from knowing what their bishops were saying on the issue of allowing remarried divorcees to receive Communion.And now we have the trial of two Italian journalists, Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose alleged