Posted on 10/10/2018 1:31:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME, October 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a close collaborator of Pope Francis, was present at the homosexual drug-fuelled party raided by the Vatican police in the summer of 2017 at which his secretary, Monsignor Luigi Capozzi, was arrested.
A highly-placed Vatican source with direct knowledge, who must remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, tells LifeSite that the Pope himself knows of Coccopalmerio’s presence at the party. The party took place in an apartment in the building of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
Coccopalmerio was head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts until his retirement in April.
The same Vatican source spoke in more depth in a private meeting this summer with a group of priests, three of whom spoke to LifeSite about it.
One of these priests told LifeSite that according to the Vatican source, Cardinal Coccopalmerio, 80, was not only an attendee. The source said “in fact, that he ‘was presiding’ over it when the Vatican Gendarmes broke in, and that they instructed him to absent himself before they started making arrests,” according to the priest.
Another priest who was at the private meeting said the Vatican source “stated clearly to me and a number of others that, when the police raided the apartment and arrested Capozzi, Cardinal Coccopalmerio was actually present at the orgy.” He was then told by the police to leave “immediately.” This priest added that the source “gave us to understand that Coccopalmerio is a practicing homosexual.”
A third priest told LifeSite that he “heard in an informal conversation in the presence of other priests from a high-ranking cleric within the Roman Curia” that at the reported 'homosexual orgy' “said Cardinal was present and quickly whisked away by Vatican police.”
As LifeSiteNews reported earlier, Pope Francis himself insisted that Monsignor Capozzi be given that apartment in the CDF building, instead of the secretary of the then-prefect for the CDF, Cardinal Gerhard Müller.
Coccopalmerio has spoken in the past about the “positive realities” that can be found in homosexual relationships. Prior to working in the Vatican he was an auxiliary bishop of Milan under Cardinal Carlo Martini. He said in a 2014 interview with Rossoporpora: “If I meet a homosexual couple, I notice immediately that their relationship is illicit: the doctrine says this, which I reaffirm with absolute certainty. However, if I stop at the doctrine, I don’t look anymore at the persons. But if I see that the two persons truly love each other, do acts of charity to those in need, for example ... then I can also say that, although the relationship remains illicit, positive elements also emerge in the two persons. Instead of closing our eyes to such positive realities, I emphasize them. It is to be objective and objectively recognize the positive [parts] of a certain relationship, of itself illicit.”
The cardinal’s reduction of moral truth to a vague notional status (an “ideal”), with no necessary bearing on conduct, is the same as Pope Francis' approach in his post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
Accordingly, Coccopalmerio is a strong supporter of Amoris Laetitia. He wrote a booklet titled The eighth Chapter of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia praising the more lenient attitude toward “remarried divorcees.” Holy Communion, insisted the cardinal, “must be given” to them.
Benjamin Leven, a German theologian and editor of the German Catholic journal Herder Korrespondenz, explains in the October 2018 issue of that journal that, according to his own sources, it was Cardinal Coccopalmerio who approached the Pope in favor of the child abuser Don Mauro Inzoli in order to have him partially reinstated as priest. As Leven puts it, in this incident Coccopalmerio played here “an unworthy role.” This cardinal, Leven continues, is known in Rome for generally opposing the removal of culprit priests from the priesthood, which for him is a sort of “death penalty.”
In light of these new revelations, the fact that the roof of St. Joseph the Carpenter Church, Coccopalmerio's own titular Church in Rome, collapsed in August 2018 might gain further significance.
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Ping
Disgusting.
5.56mm
Interesting ...
This individual was born in 1938. He was ordained On 28JUN1962, at the age of 24 years. His priestly formation occurred from about 1956 to 1962. He received his licentiate in theology in 1963.
The Second Vatican Council closed in 1965.
Jus' sayin' ...
I need to vomit.
Pope St. Pius V would have had him ordered over to the secular authorities to be executed.
Pope St. Pius X would have have him laicized.
Pope Francis covers up for him.
Just saying.
P.S. It’s against forum rules to carry grudges across threads.
Among the Bergoglian gang running the show now in the Vatican, Cocco seems like one of the sleaziest of the sleazy.
We know about the gay cardinal orgy IN the Vatican. So did the pope. He did nothing. He is unfit to be pope.
There needs to be a purge. All gay clergy OUT.
The point still remains: the rot set in before the Council, before the new liturgy. It may be that the Council and/or new liturgy exacerbated/accelerated/deepened/etc. the rot, but it was already bad and getting worse before that.
The church looks like the Democrat party, always there to make appologies of terrorists and not cleaning up ranks.
Liberals are slobs
The church looks like the Democrat party, always there to make appologies of terrorists and not cleaning up ranks.
Christians are murdered by muslims and there is not a peep out of the Vatican. Not a word. Speaks volumes.
That’s true. But that the rot set in before the Council strongly suggests that a return to the status quo ante Council is not the solution. In may be a single part of a much wider solution, but by itself, it’s feckless.
In my view, extirpating homosexuals from the clergy, root and branch, though still only a partial solution, is a much, much larger part of the complete answer.
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If he was born in 1938 I’m surprised that the drug being used at that party wasn’t Viagra.
Who’s carrying grudges? I posted some true facts. Let them stand on their own merits.
And the threat of sodomites, heretics, and infidels was already entrenched then ... and the Church did NOTHING effective to combat them. And now we have Frankie the Talking Heretic polluting the See of Peter, and we have this character buggering his way through the curia.
Simply telling these creeps to shut up for a few years doesn't cut it ... we need to learn from history and take EFFECTIVE steps against them.
We don’t know what drugs all were involved; we only know that cocaine was one of them.
Here’s how one saintly pope would clean up gay orgies at the Vatican
I can now finally agree with you.
Dominus tecum.
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