One Pervert Too Far?
Do you recall Zanchetta The Pope's best buddy from Argentina who he made a bishop bypassing all canonical procedure in 2013?
Well he now has an international arrest warrant on his head for multiple sexual assaults on young men. The Vatican claims they were only made aware of these assaults a few months ago, but Associated Press heard back in January from Zanchetta's former Vicar General that the Vatican actually received information in 2015 and 2017 that an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis had taken naked selfies, exhibited “obscene” behaviour and had been accused of misconduct with seminarians.
Francis allowed him to step down in 2017 for “health reasons,” but then named him to a senior Vatican administration position a few months later.
Francis acknowledged in a TV interview earlier this year that he asked Zanchetta about the initial accusation, involving nude selfies on the bishop’s cellphone. The pope said he gave Zanchetta the benefit of the doubt after he claimed his phone had been hacked.
Belda Iniesta stressed that judges had rejected requests by Argentine prosecutor María Soledad Filtrín for an international arrest warrant.
He also insisted the bishop believes the prosecutor’s actions were aimed only at learning the truth, ”even when they could seem compulsive or repetitive without apparent motive.”
The Vatican insists the first accusation of actual sex abuse was only lodged against Zanchetta in late 2018. But The Associated Press and the newspaper Tribune of Salta have reported that documents and testimony from diocesan officials raised credible allegations of inappropriate sexual misconduct well before then.
Argentine prosecutors said last week that an order for Zanchetta’s capture had been requested because the bishop did not answer repeated phone calls or emails to be notified of the legal process against him.
The attorney’s statement Saturday said the bishop has been at the “residence indicated to judicial authorities.” That appeared to confirm that Zanchetta has been lodging at the same Vatican hotel, the Santa Marta, at which the pope stays.
How can we take the Pope seriously on abuse when he seems intent on employing most of the abusers at head quarters?
Pity they didn't have PF's name on that warrant. Zanchetta & he seem such good bedfellows. Of course, there's always the chance that another international warrant could follow - maybe issue it to PF directly as he flies back to Rome.
ReplyDeleteIt is highly unlikely Bergolio is not also a sodomite. It is said the people of Argentina certainly know he is, and that it's widely discussed. Puhleeze, let some of that evidence come out of Argentina, someone must have photos of something. Let's reveal why he's so supportive of homosexuality, why he promotes the worst to the highest levels of the church, indeed, lives with them.
ReplyDeleteHis choice to live in Casa Santa Marta had nothing to do with his touted "humility" (what a joke), but surely was because St. Peter's would perhaps be bugged and reveal too many pajama parties and sleepovers.
Let it all come out, all of it.
Please do not call him our pope. If you must call him the present anti-pope or some other such name based on the words of PPBXVI's declaration of intent to renounce administering the Petrine Munus but not the office itself. According to Canon Law itself, former Cdl Bergoglio has likely never been anyone's pope let alone "ours". Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe Vatican is a cozy place where pervert criminals can live without fear of extradition. In other words straight from the last Book of the Bible , "..........where every hateful and unclean bird gathers."
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