Pixelated screenshot of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia's retweet of the image of naked adults with naked kids. Posted on 07/16/2020 6:18:07 PM PDT by ebb tide
ITALY, July 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A prominent Vatican archbishop, infamous for commissioning a homoerotic mural to be painted in his Cathedral, retweeted today an image of a naked man and woman lying on the ground surrounded by naked children.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, chancellor of the new John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome and the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, retweeted a post that originated from the John Paul II Institute. The original post was part of a promotion of a broadcast featuring film director Alessandro D'Alatri. The film director was behind the 2002 film Casomai, which according to the John Paul II Institute’s web page promoting the broadcast, is “used today in all premarital courses.”
“Today at ‘Now airing Gp2' we will talk about cinema and family with Alessandro D'Alatri, winner of four awards at the festival @PopoliReligioni,” wrote Paglia’s in a retweet [WARNING: Link goes to image of naked adults, children] as translated from its original Italian to English.
Pixelated screenshot of Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia's retweet of the image of naked adults with naked kids.
The image shows two actors of the film Casomai, Fabio Volo, and Stefania Rocca, lying down naked with one arm holding up their heads. They are surrounded by four naked children, who appear to be male and of a similar age. The actors are posed in such a way to mostly cover intimate parts of the body.
Casomai is a film revolving around two lovers who marry in a rural church where the priest questions the couple about the “lasting power of relationships.” It is told in flashback sequences that portray the ups and downs of their marriage.
This is not the first time Paglia has been involved in a controversy involving images of naked people.
The archbishop was featured in a homoerotic painting he commissioned in his Cathedral. 
Archbishop Paglia | Depiction of Paglia in Cathedral mural clutching semi-nude man.
The massive mural covers the opposite side of the facade of the cathedral church of the Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia. It depicts Jesus carrying nets to heaven filled with naked and semi-nude homosexuals, transsexuals, prostitutes, and drug dealers, jumbled together in erotic interactions.
As reported by LifeSite’s Matthew Hoffman in 2017, “included in one of the nets is Paglia, the then diocesan bishop. The image of the Savior is painted with the face of a local male hairdresser, and his private parts can be seen through his translucent garb.”
The Archbishop defended the homoerotic mural which shows him reaching out in affection to a semi-naked man, saying it serves as an “evangelizing” tool.
Archbishop Paglia with Pope Francis SOURCE: Vincenzo Paglia / www.vincenzopaglia.it
Catholic critics were quick to blast the mural as "disgusting” and as “blasphemous.”
Paglia also oversaw the release of a controversial sex-ed program during the 2016 World Youth Day in Poland that includes sexually explicit images. The course was criticized as being “thoroughly immoral.”
The archbishop has defended giving Holy Communion to adulterers, has been instrumental in gutting and remaking the John Paul II Institute according to the pulse of the Francis pontificate, has asserted that priests may legitimately remain at the bedside of someone undergoing assisted suicide in order to “hold their hand” and “accompany” them, and has claimed that anyone who says Judas Iscariot is in hell is a heretic.
U.S. psychiatrist Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, a counseling center director who has been a consultant to the Congregation for the Clergy at the Vatican and has served as adjunct professor at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America, stated in 2016 in the wake of the Vatican sex-ed program that Archbishop Paglia should be evaluated by sex abuse review board.
Paglia “should be required in justice to go through an evaluation by a review board as described in the Dallas Charter norms for placing youth at risk,” Fitzgibbons wrote. “Such a review is particularly important as he is now been put in charge of further teaching regarding sexuality and marriage at the John Paul II Institute for Family Studies.”
Fitzgibbons at the time strongly condemned the Vatican’s sex education program as abusive, saying it was “the most dangerous threat to Catholic youth” he had seen in the past 40 years.
Ping
isn’t this child pornography?
Good grief! Excuse me while I retreat to say some prayers for the Church.
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These people are creepy.
OR.
This person did this not knowing it is wrong, in which case you have a bigger problem.
I am so very sorry.
Does God still smite people? Or is that too old testament? Because this guy seems like he could use a smite.
‘Sex slave’ priest Peter Miqueli found dead at New Jersey home
Good grief. Where are the millstones?
Okay. If that guy got smote, this one could too.
I am so sick of the Catholic hierarchy.
The best, the greatest priest I ever knew was stricken dead by a stroke in March. He was 42 and had taught only the message of Christ’s salvation according to Scripture. This was enough to make him a rebel who would never know higher ecclesiastical rank.
He knew it and joyfully preached that those saved in Jesus’ name need never fear the death of the body. I hope to see him in Heaven someday along with my beloved wife who preceded me.
Laus Deo!
God’s fix in to smite a whole gotta people!!
I’m sorry that the world has lost that great priest who passed at such a young age. We could use more like him!
I have met one phenomenal priest who came a year ago for our Lenten mission. He spoke about sin and it’s effect in our lives, personally and communally. I told him after the 5 day event that I have been waiting to hear a priest speak like this since I was a child. We don’t ever hear about sin anymore. It’s by acknowledging our sin that forgiveness and healing can really take place.
My own pastor is terrific, and has been pretty brave the last few weeks. I won’t go into what he said, but I’m certain he will be reprimanded for speaking the truth. As you mentioned, he will never get very far in the hierarchy, but that’s good news for us.
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