Sean Adl-Tabatabai – A gay male escort has blown the whistle on 34 Vatican officials who he says regularly purchased underage kids for sex.
According to an explosive 1,200-page dossier, the names of 34 Vatican priests and six seminarians who were involved in sex with minors in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples.
Newsweek.com reports: The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ “hypocrisy” any longer.
“The aim is not to hurt the people mentioned, but to help them understand that their double life, however seemingly convenient, is not useful to them or to all the people for whom they should be a guide and an example to follow,” Mangiacapra said, as reported by the Corriere della Sera.
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, an Italian Cardinal and the current Archbishop of Naples, said in a statement that none of the priests who were named in the dossier were stationed in Naples. He claims he forwarded the document to the Vatican because “there remains the gravity of the cases for which those who have erred must pay the price, and be helped to repent for the harm done.”
The large file contains explicit WhatsApp messages, erotic photos and other evidence but none of the 40 priests and seminarians were accused of paedophilia or having sexual relations with minors. “We’re talking about sins, not crimes,” Mangiacapra said.
The dossier is the latest in a string of sex scandals that have rocked the Italian church and Vatican.
Last month, an Italian court issued a 14-month suspended sentence to a Vatican tribunal judge for sexual molestation and possessing child pornography.
Monsignor Pietro Amenta, a judge on the Rota (a court that hears mostly family cases), was arrested last March for publicly fondling an 18-year-old man in Rome. Authorities then began an investigation where they discovered pornographic images of minors on his personal computer, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
One week after Amenta accepted the plea bargain, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, the vice director of the Vatican press office, announced in an email to Catholic News Service that Amenta had “resigned as prelate auditor of the Roman Rota.”
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“Many priests and seminarians named in the dossier are from the Diocese of Teggiano Policastro, although the report was given to the Archdiocese of Naples. Bishop Antonio De Luca of Teggiano-Policastro stressed that “the report on scandalous behaviours of some of the members of the clergy of many dioceses of Southern Italy causes great pain to our diocesan community.” “Scandalous behaviors is a nice, mealy-mouthed way of putting it. The Archbishop of Naples put it more bluntly, and more truthfully: “Cardinal Sepe concluded that if the allegations are proven true, “those who failed must pay and must be helped to repent of the evil they did.” The man who wrote the expose” may have mixed motives or even evil motives, but that”s irrelevant to the fact that if any of the priests or seminarians are actually guilty there should be dire consequences. And if their behavior was known by superiors already, there should be consequences there, too. Whatever the motives, Mangiacapra has pointed out a festering abscess that needs to be cured. custom writing
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What are the odds of Francesco being alive to legally and formally provide his personal testimony. What are the notorious “Vatican Assassins?”