A high profile Vatican cleric suspended after he was shown on television making advances to a young man allegedly had a list of homosexual priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church’s governing body, Italy’s Panorama weekly reported Friday.<\/p>\n
Father Tommaso Stenico, 60, had “a detailed dossier” of all the homosexual clerics at Vatican “with a list of names and circumstances implicating a certain number of priests and even bishops working at the Curia,” Ignazio Ingrao, reporter for the conservative news weekly said.<\/p>\n
Stenico also sent his superior Cardinal Claudio Hummes a report denouncing the moral degradation within the Curia, which could make the Vatican “tremble,” Ingrao said.<\/p>\n
According to Panorama, Stenico, who also worked for a Catholic television station Telepace and owns a white BMW car, also drew up the list out of resentment at having waited so long to be named a bishop.<\/p>\n
A hidden camera in his office showed the priest, who worked in a Vatican department managing the 400,000 Roman Catholic priests around the world, declaring himself an “active homosexual” and making sexual advances to a young man.<\/p>\n
On October 1, Italian television station La7 aired footage from the encounter showing the two men with their faces blurred.<\/p>\n
Stenico argued he had been trapped and had falsely stated he was homosexual “in order to unmask those who really are.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Stay tuned. It remains to be seen how much of this is smoke, and how much is fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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