The Vatican has been sent a 1,200-page dossier compiled by a male escort identifying 40 actively gay priests and seminarians in Italy.
The file, containing WhatsApp chats and other evidence, was created by a self-proclaimed gay escort named as Francesco Mangiacapra.
He has told Italian media that he outed the priests because he couldn't stand their hypocrisy any longer.
The archdiocese of Naples says it has sent the Vatican a 1,200-page dossier compiled by a male escort identifying 40 actively gay priests and seminarians in Italy.
The archdiocese of Naples says it has forwarded the dossier to the Vatican. In a statement on the diocesan website, Archbishop of Naples Cardinal Cresenzio Sepe said none of the identified priests worked in the city.
But he said he decided to pass on the file 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.'
None of the 34 priests or six seminarians was accused of having sex with minors, Mangiacapra was quoted as saying in the diocesan statement.
'We're talking about sins, not crimes,' the escort was quoted as saying in the statement.
It's the latest sex scandal to convulse the Italian church and the Vatican.
Last month, a Vatican judge pleaded guilty in a Rome tribunal to having child porn on his computer after police were brought in when he allegedly tried to fondle an 18-year-old man.
Monsignor Pietro Amenta was a judge on the Roman Rota, the Holy See tribunal that hears marriage annulment cases, as well as a consulter to various Vatican congregations.
He resigned after the plea deal, the Vatican said.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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PRIESTHOOD IS A VOCATIONAL LIKE ANY OTHER VOCATION SUCH AS TAILORS, TEACHERS, ELECTRICIANS, LAWYERS, CLERGYMEN OR PASTORS, NURSES, DOCTORS, ACCOUNTANTS, ENGINEERS, AND YOU NAME IT. AS THE SAYING IN AKAN GOES 'EFIE BIARA MENASH WOHO" LITERALLY MEANING, THERE IS A BAD NUT (PERSON) IN EVERY HOME OR VOCATION. WE HAVE VERY CORRUPT AND OR WRONG PERSONS IN ALL THESE VOCATIONS I HAVE JUST TABLED ABOVE INCLUDING THE CLERGY AND THE PRIESTHOOD AND YET AT THE SAME TIME YOU CAN EQUALLY GET THE VERY REAL RELIABLE ONES THAT WILL NEVER DISAPPOINT ANY OTHER PERSON NOT TO TAKE OF GOD. YET ALL THESE PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FOLLOWERS; BOTH BAD AND GOOD FOLLOWERS ALIKE. WE NEED NOT MAKE HASTY CONCLUSIONS ABOUT EVERYONE AS THE SAME. THE SOCIOLOGISTS WILL TELL US THAT WE ARE DRAWING CONCLUSIONS BASED ON STEREOTYPE IDEAS. FOR SOME PEOPLE IN GHANA "MUTTON OF THE EARTH" OR OGWAN KOKO)(DOG MEAT)IS THEIR SERIOUS DELICAY BUT MEAT FROM SNAILS COULD BE THEIR WORSE TOTEM. FOR OTHERS MUTTON OF THE EARTH IS A SERIOUS CRIME TO COME CLOSE TO THEIR HOMES NOT TO TALK OF BOILING IT FOR FOOD YET MEAT FROM SNAILS WILL SERVE A GREAT DELICACY. CAN WE THERFORE CONCLUDE THAT EVERY GHANAIAN EATS OGWAN KOKO) BECAUSE SOME GHANAIANS EAT IT? OR CAN WE SAY THAT EVERY GHANAIAN EATS MEAT FROM SNAILS ? SORRY, BUT I WILL SAY NO TO BOTH QUESTIONS. PEOPLE SHOULD SEE THESE VOCATIONS IN THAT LIGHT, THAT THE BEHAVIOUR OF "BAD NUTS" IN THE VARIOUS GROUPS OF THE VOCATIONS DO NOT JUSTIFY STEREOTYPING OF EVERYONE IN THE GROUP. JUST AS THERE MAY BE VERY BAD CATHOLIC PRIESTS DOES NOT JUSTIFY LABLING EVERY CATHOLIC PRIEST OR EVERY ROMAN CATHOLIC AS THE SAME AS THE BAD ONES. THIS EXPLAINS WHY WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES AND DIFFERENT SOCIALISATION.
By their fruits ye shall know them!
I think the foundation of the catholic church is questionable. It does appear in that church, any thing goes. How can you see the glory of God in such a filthy environment? I am beginning to doubt weather the catholic church is really a church of God or some occultic institution that is there to decieve some. It is high time the catholic church rethink its operations for i have lost respect for it.
To so called Yaw, your ignorance is too loud and deafening. If you ever went to any church that supposedly had some sensible congregants, count the leaders and monitor them for only one week. just write down the number of evils you notice them partake in. After that come and talk about any other church in a nonsensical way that you just did.
Why do you publish this on a Ghanaian newsmedia page if that thing is a taboo in Ghana?Ghanaian media you are truly lost.
The Catholic Church is a mess!!! They’re the incubators of most of the ills and immorality that plagues the world!! Their professed piety and other holier-than-thou attitudes are just a facade to ***barred word*** their congregations. Some of us are not ***barred word*** at all!!! GOD IS WATCHING!!