Posted on 07/15/2021 3:44:38 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN CITY — The warnings started coming eight years ago, sent to some of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church, alerting them to a potential sex abuse crime that stood out from other church cases.
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The profile of the alleged abuser, by itself, was unusual: not a priest, but rather a teenage altar boy, who was said to have coerced a peer to engage in various sex acts night after night over six years. And then there was the purported location: inside the Vatican’s own walls, at a youth seminary for the 15 or so altar boys who served the pope.
“Right now a boy is there who should no longer be there,” read an anonymous letter sent to Pope Francis and several cardinals in 2013, informing the just-elected pontiff of an alleged offender “20 meters away from where you sleep.”
The alleged abuser had even participated in the pontiff’s first Mass in the Sistine Chapel.
For a church trying to better contend with abuse and coverup across its empire, the warnings about Gabriele Martinelli were a direct institutional test. The events described in the anonymous letter, as well as in accounts from the alleged victim and a witness, were said to have taken place right under the church’s nose. By 2013, the complaints about Martinelli had been communicated to the pope and a who’s who of cardinals and bishops. The next year, the Vatican’s third-ranking official wrote a letter that referred to the accusations and asserted that the pope “knows the case well.”.
And yet, in 2017, Martinelli was ordained a priest.
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Wonder where he learned that behavior from?
Just reading the headline, I would suggest he passed the “quick test” for being a priest.
Later he grew up and started posting cryptic stuff on 8Chan.
The legend of Qanon.
Oh, he must have been popular.
Why isn't Hunter Biden a Cardinal? Is it because he just does women?
Sounds like Marcio Maciel and his Legionnaries.
He was one of the sickest, most prolific pederasts at the Vatican.
He’s got a bright future ahead of him in the church.
Fixed it for you.
Another Catholic-bashing post from the WashingPost? Not worth reading?
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