Cleric suspended in gay sex scandal
The Vatican said it had suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful.
The Vatican did not identify the monsignor by name. But Msgr. Tommaso Stenico confirmed in a telephone interview with the Associated Press that he had been suspended from his post at the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, an office that aims to ensure proper conduct by priests.
In the program on private Italian channel La7, a man identified as a priest is heard saying that he “didn’t feel he was sinning” by having sex with men.
Vatican teaching holds that homosexual activity is a sin.
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