ROME -- 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.
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.
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.
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.
The thing that really bothers me about this is that he supposedly drew up this list out of "resentment" at having to wait to be named a Bishop. People are so worried about gays in high places. I'm much more concerned about "climbers" like this (if indeed there is truth to the story) who use the Church as nothing but a vehicle for their own aggrandizement.
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"People are so worried about gays in high places. I'm much more concerned about "climbers" like this (if indeed there is truth to the story) who use the Church as nothing but a vehicle for their own aggrandizement."
I think it was Father Neuhaus who recently had an article on the large number of priests who avoid making controversial decisions in their parishes so as to not make errors that might keep them from becoming a bishop.
Then, if and when they become a bishop, they have no experience at all in making difficult decisions, and their diocese becomes the worse for it.
I believe that the solution was to consecrate priests only for their own diocese so that priests who see that their bishop will be around for twenty years or so won't manage their parishes as platforms for their own episcopate in some other diocese.
Now that sounds like a great idea. Might do a lot to stem the "careerism" against which the Holy Father has spoken.
Fr. Charles Ledderer, The Dakotas, USA you are impersonating a Catholic priest. Your identity is fictitious. There are people on here that are believing you. I am asking you not to trick people anymore.
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