VATICAN CITY – A Vatican court for the first time has issued a drug conviction, giving a former employee of the Holy See a four-month suspended sentence for cocaine use, Italian news reports said Sunday.

The man worked in a Holy See administrative office and was recently fired because a criminal court had convicted him of other offenses outside the Vatican. The Vatican tribunal convicted him of possessing cocaine, which was found in the room where he worked.

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