with all the scandals going on and this felcher still thinks it's business as usual...
Posted on 06/17/2019 7:08:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME - More people have come forward to accuse Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the papal representative to France, of inappropriate behavior and groping. The Vatican diplomat currently is entrenched in a scandal after three men accused him of the same behavior earlier this year.
“We spoke with the Nuncio and he kept putting his hands on our legs while speaking with us, especially to the youngest priest who was with me,” said one alleged victim in a phone interview with Crux June 13.
The meeting took place in 2018 at the Vatican’s embassy in Paris. The man was accompanied by two people, who at first thought that Ventura’s behavior “could have been normal” and even “paternal.”
However, when the time came to take a picture, the nuncio’s intentions became clear.
“I took my mobile phone, to see what the perfect angle was to take the picture. He came behind me as if to look at how the picture was. That’s when he put his hands on my buttocks for about five seconds,” said the man, who wishes to remain anonymous.
“I was so shocked I couldn’t react,” he added.
An Italian, Ventura was appointed as a papal representative to France in September 2009 by emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
The incident at the nunciature is similar to that described by Paris City Hall employee Mathieu de La Souchère, 27, who was the first to come forward accusing Ventura of inappropriate touching during a January 2019 New Year’s Eve event.
“When Monsignor Ventura’s car arrived, I came to pick him up and he started saying that I looked very beautiful, that he thought I was a very handsome man and he kept groping me,” De La Souchère told Crux in a June 12 phone interview.
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“I was so shocked I couldn’t react,”
I wish I could be shocked by the behavior of priest in the Church.
Biden?
with all the scandals going on and this felcher still thinks it's business as usual...
Archbishop Luigi Biden.
I hope this isn’t true. I encountered him in Canada on several occasions and he did and said good things.
That said, in this world people who do and say good things can also do bad things, and the rot runs deep in the hierarchy.
If he did do these sorts of things, I pray he does the honourable and religious thing, repenting and doing penance.
Does he think he’s Joe Biden?
And resigning his offices to do so.
Monsignor Ace Venture. Penis detective.
I don’t know the severity of the things, but anyone who isn’t more squeaky clean than what this sounds has no business functioning as a Cardinal, Nuncio, Bishop, or Pope.
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