Curia Cardinal Feels the Need for a Child Molester

We are in a "phase of intellectual underdevelopment", "in urgent need of a culture capable of stirring consciences" and suffering from "a lack of authoritative voices", lamented retired Curia Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi (CortileDeiGentili.com, November 2022).

That's why he thinks that "today we need a new Pasolini, because his positions have provoked reactions, in the political world and in the Church."

Pier Paolo Pasolini was a filmmaker known for his obscenities, an avowed Marxist ("we are convinced that only communism can offer a new 'true' culture at present"), a paedophile, homosexual, author of bawdy novels and anti-clerical atheist.

In August 1949, he paid three minors, one under 16, to masturbate. Pasolini's lawyer convinced the boys' families not to press charges and offered them each 100,000 lire [today: €1900] to hush up the case. After this incident, the Communist Party expelled him.

But now Pasolini is being recycled by the decadent Vatican.

The 53-year-old Pasolini was murdered by a 17-year-old prostitute in an altercation in Ostia in November 1975.

Picture: Gianfranco Ravasi, Pier Paolo Pasolini © wikipedia, CC BY-SA, #newsXsofdqdnop