Public Sinner: Homosexual Abuser Embarrasses Vatican
Monsignor Tony Anatrella, 80, a psychotherapist ("the Church's shrink") - accused since 2001 by several men, usually homosexuals, of having applied to them "corporal therapy" by making them undress …More
Monsignor Tony Anatrella, 80, a psychotherapist ("the Church's shrink") - accused since 2001 by several men, usually homosexuals, of having applied to them "corporal therapy" by making them undress and masturbating them -, participated at the February 17-19 Vatican conference on the priesthood.
In 2018, Paris Archbishop Aupetit found Anatrella guilty, suspended him and forbad him to speak in public. At the conference he registered as “Mons. Tony Anatrella.”
La-Croix.com knows that Anatrella had lunch at Francis' Santa Martha on Thursday. The guest house is one of the places where the participants of the symposium may take their meals.
Registration for the event was open to all clergy and done by an Italian company. Anatrella signed up on his own initiative. Cardinal Ouellet whose congregation organises the event, protested that he didn't know about Anatrella's presence.
However, Ouellet has prefaced one of Anatrella's books, invited him to the Family Synod in 2014, and engaged him as …More
In 2018, Paris Archbishop Aupetit found Anatrella guilty, suspended him and forbad him to speak in public. At the conference he registered as “Mons. Tony Anatrella.”
La-Croix.com knows that Anatrella had lunch at Francis' Santa Martha on Thursday. The guest house is one of the places where the participants of the symposium may take their meals.
Registration for the event was open to all clergy and done by an Italian company. Anatrella signed up on his own initiative. Cardinal Ouellet whose congregation organises the event, protested that he didn't know about Anatrella's presence.
However, Ouellet has prefaced one of Anatrella's books, invited him to the Family Synod in 2014, and engaged him as …More
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A Vatican symposium on the priesthood, including discussions on sexual abuse, was embarrassed by the discovery that a French priest disciplined for alleged sexual abuse was among the attendees.
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As Christ said: Better for him had he never been born
Hugh N. Cry
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Nasty sodomite
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This appears more flagrant than 'embarrassment' when the Vatican hosts this fellow and lunch with him. This doesn't appear to be rectifying anything in the contemporary priesthood, just the opposite.
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This pretty much says it all. The cartoon is spot on. I once heard Ouellet speak, and found him to be a thoroughly unimpressive human being. Complete waste of more than an hour of my life.