Monday, October 15, 2007
October 15, 2007Vatican priest caught in TV sex sting
Monsignor Tommaso Stenico
Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, 60, is the director of one of the three departments that make up the Congregation for the Clergy, the Vatican “ministry” for the clergy.
Yesterday he claimed that he was pretending to be gay in an attempt to unmask a Satanic plot to seduce Catholic priests to homosexuality and thus discredit the Church. “I only pretended I was gay to study how priests are seduced,” said Mgr Stenico, a frequent guest on television programmes discussing religious issues. “There are people who go after them . . . I really believe there is a diabolical plan by groups of Satanists.”
Mgr Stenico admits inviting a man whom he met on a gay website to his office, across the piazza from Saint Peter’s Basilica, after expressing an attraction to sado-masochism. What he did not know was that the young man was working for a TV investigation on homosexuality among Catholic priests and went to the tryst with a concealed video camera. The footage was shown this month by La 7, the national TV channel.
It shows the young man entering the lift to Mgr Stenico’s office and then speaking with the priest in his office. The faces and voices are heavily disguised to respect privacy laws but with the help of subtitles the topics being discussed are obvious.
Mgr Stenico asks the man, “Do you like me?” and tells him that he is very good-looking. When the young man expresses fears that having sex would be “a sin in the eyes of the Church”, the priest replies: “I do not feel it would be sinful.” Drawn on the subject of sado-masochistic sex, the monsignor says that these are “inner choices, the psychological basis of a personality”. The young man continues to raise moral and religious objections to actually having sex, until the priest becomes irritated, says that he has no time left and takes him back to the lift. On parting, the Monsignor tells him that he is “really tasty” and that he can telephone him or send him a message.
[Read the whole article here.]On youtube.com the interview with the "Monsignor", here.
From the same investigative TV programme, interviews with a gay priest with hidden camera (video1, video2, video3).
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From the Guardian:
Sex, lies and videotape: turmoil at the Vatican
· Official secretly filmed propositioning young man
· Bureaucrat claims he was investigating satanist plot
John Hooper in Rome
Monday October 15, 2007
The Guardian
The Vatican was last night at the centre of an unusually public sex scandal after acknowledging it had suspended a senior official who was filmed apparently propositioning a young man in his office.
Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, a capo ufficio, or section head, at the Vatican ministry responsible for the clergy, insisted yesterday he was not gay. He said he had posed as a homosexual to research a plot by satanists.
The affair is the latest of several indications that the traditional immunity enjoyed by the Catholic church in Italy over sex scandals is gradually giving way.
[Read the whole article here]
COMMENT:
The Roman Catholic Church is likely the largest gay organization in the world.
That would not be a problem, if they were candid about it.
As it is, the Roman Catholic Clergy enforce unnatural, unscientific prescriptions about sexuality (on premarital sex, masturbation, homosexuality, contraception), contributing to the spreading of sexual - emotional immaturity - of which they themselves have likely been victims - while exactly behaving the opposite and even admitting it, though never in public.
A massive example of duplicity and slimy hypocrisy.
As I have stated in the past, serious reflections should be made on whether it is really a good idea to expose children to the sick vision of the world presented by often sexually-emotionally immature and unbalanced black-gowned men in drag.
Not to mention the fact that to the eyes of many priests a Sunday School is likely a paradise of possible catamites.
