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In reply to the discussion: 15 year old girl 'Kidnapped For Vatican Sex Parties,' claims RCC's leading exorcist. [View all]struggle4progress
(125,962 posts)11. Huffington Post got it from the Telegraph, who got it from La Stampa, who
in turn got it from the "world's leading exorcist"! He is a man with many opinions:
... Father Amorth was .. one of the voices that made public warnings to parents about J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels ... At a film festival in Umbria ... he is quoted as saying that yoga is satanic ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Amorth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Amorth
The Huffington Post is apparently recycling his opinion regarding Emanuela Orlandi
Padre Amorth: "Orlandi, fu un delitto a sfondo sessuale"
Emanuela Orlandi, la ragazza scomparsa nel 1983 a Roma
Il capo degli esorcisti: "Attirata in una trappola"
GIACOMO GALEAZZI
città del vaticano
«E' un delitto a sfondo sessuale», sostiene il capo mondiale degli esorcisti, padre Gabriele Amorth. L'anziano sacerdote, molto stimato da Benedetto XVI, rivela a La Stampa una pista interna per la scomparsa nel 1983 della cittadina vaticana davanti alla chiesa di Sant'Apollinare, da poco riferita riservatamente ai familiari della ragazza.
«Come dichiarato anche da monsignor Simeone Duca, archivista vaticano, venivano organizzati festini nei quali era coinvolto come "reclutatore di ragazze" anche un gendarme della Santa Sede. Ritengo che Emanuela sia finita vittima di quel giro - spiega padre Amorth - Non ho mai creduto alla pista internazionale, ho motivo di credere che si sia trattato di un caso di sfruttamento sessuale con conseguente omicidio poco dopo la scomparsa e occultamento del cadavere». E ancora: «Nel giro era coinvolto anche personale diplomatico di un'ambasciata straniera presso la Santa Sede» ...
http://www3.lastampa.it/cronache/sezioni/articolo/lstp/455110/
città del vaticano
«E' un delitto a sfondo sessuale», sostiene il capo mondiale degli esorcisti, padre Gabriele Amorth. L'anziano sacerdote, molto stimato da Benedetto XVI, rivela a La Stampa una pista interna per la scomparsa nel 1983 della cittadina vaticana davanti alla chiesa di Sant'Apollinare, da poco riferita riservatamente ai familiari della ragazza.
«Come dichiarato anche da monsignor Simeone Duca, archivista vaticano, venivano organizzati festini nei quali era coinvolto come "reclutatore di ragazze" anche un gendarme della Santa Sede. Ritengo che Emanuela sia finita vittima di quel giro - spiega padre Amorth - Non ho mai creduto alla pista internazionale, ho motivo di credere che si sia trattato di un caso di sfruttamento sessuale con conseguente omicidio poco dopo la scomparsa e occultamento del cadavere». E ancora: «Nel giro era coinvolto anche personale diplomatico di un'ambasciata straniera presso la Santa Sede» ...
http://www3.lastampa.it/cronache/sezioni/articolo/lstp/455110/
Father Amorth: Orlandi's disappearance "a sex crime"
JAMES EQUIPAGGIO
Vatican City
"It was a sex crime," says the world's leading exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. The elderly priest, highly respected by Benedict XVI, told La Stampa an inside view, of the 1983 disappearance in front of the church of St. Apollinaris in Vatican City, had recently been reported confidentially to the girl's family ...
"As also stated by the Vatican archivist, Bishop Simeon Duke, feasts were organized in which a policeman of the Holy See was involved as a recruiter of girls. I think Emanuela victim of that round is over (said Father Amorth). I never believed in the international track. I have reason to believe that this was a case of sexual exploitation, murder, and concealment of the corpse. " And further: "It also involved diplomatic personnel of a foreign embassy to the Holy See."
http://www3.lastampa.it/cronache/sezioni/articolo/lstp/455110/
Vatican City
"It was a sex crime," says the world's leading exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. The elderly priest, highly respected by Benedict XVI, told La Stampa an inside view, of the 1983 disappearance in front of the church of St. Apollinaris in Vatican City, had recently been reported confidentially to the girl's family ...
"As also stated by the Vatican archivist, Bishop Simeon Duke, feasts were organized in which a policeman of the Holy See was involved as a recruiter of girls. I think Emanuela victim of that round is over (said Father Amorth). I never believed in the international track. I have reason to believe that this was a case of sexual exploitation, murder, and concealment of the corpse. " And further: "It also involved diplomatic personnel of a foreign embassy to the Holy See."
http://www3.lastampa.it/cronache/sezioni/articolo/lstp/455110/
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15 year old girl 'Kidnapped For Vatican Sex Parties,' claims RCC's leading exorcist. [View all]
cleanhippie
May 2012
OP
I am not Catholic but I don't like this blanket condemnation of the Catholic Church.
potone
May 2012
#1
Liberal Catholics have been "rally(ing) around those ... trying to live up to Christ's teachings"
trotsky
May 2012
#6
Yep, if you want to live up to Christ's teachings find a different church that does better
ButterflyBlood
May 2012
#8
I think the more liberal Catholics need to nail some more theses on the church doors. n/t
backscatter712
May 2012
#45
Huffington Post got it from the Telegraph, who got it from La Stampa, who
struggle4progress
May 2012
#11
Are you asking: does everything, that he ever says, qualify as an official church pronouncement?
struggle4progress
May 2012
#15
This story has a lot going for it. A cold case, a creepy priest that the students are warned to
dimbear
May 2012
#28
This isn't a general "how can a religious person support a religious organization" thing.
Goblinmonger
May 2012
#32