He was also ordered to pay the costs of the trial at the Vatican City courthouse.
The case is the biggest
to go before the Vatican court in decades. It has been the subject of
intense interest because a book based on the leaked papers revealed
claims of corruption within the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
Presiding judge Giuseppe
Dalla Torre said he was reducing the three-year term requested by the
prosecution to 18 months because of mitigating circumstances.
These included the fact
that Gabriele had no previous criminal record and his acknowledgment of
"having betrayed" the pope's trust, Dalla Torre said, in a reading of
the verdict broadcast on Vatican TV.
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