VATICAN CITY
Business Insider
Michael Kelley
The Catholic Church’s leading exorcist priest asserts that a Vatican employee’s daughter thought to be buried in a mob boss’s tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties, reports Nick Pisa of the Daily Mail.
Father Gabriel Amorth, who was ordained in 1954 and has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms, made the claim to Italian newspaper La Stampa as police examine the contents of mobster Enrico De Pedis’s tomb for clues about the 1983 disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi.
Father Amorth, 85, noted that an archivist at the Vatican previously admitted to recruiting girls for parties and told La Stampa newspaper the he believes that Orlandi “ended up in this circle” and that the “case of sexual exploitation” led to her murder followed by “the hiding of her body,” according to the Daily Mail.
Father Amorth also said that “diplomatic staff from a foreign embassy to the Holy See” were also involved.
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