ROME
Christian Post
By Brittney R. Villalva , Christian Post Reporter
May 23, 2012
One of the Catholic Church’s leading exorcists has accused the Vatican of playing a role in the kidnapping of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared in 1983.
Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, has become a controversial figure within the Catholic Church for occasionally making charges that for some seem extreme. In 2011, Amorth suggested that yoga was satanic because it could lead to the practice of Hinduism; he has also related Harry Potter and Hitler to the devil.
Amorth’s most recent statement however, carries far more severity and charges that members of the Vatican kidnapped 15-year-old Emanuela and then used her for Vatican sex parties. Amorth originally made the statement to La Stampa, which was then translated by the Telegraph.
“This was a crime with a sexual motive. Parties were organised, with a Vatican gendarme acting as the ‘recruiter’ of the girls,” the Telegraph reported.
The Vatican had been charged in the past with not fully cooperating with the investigation of the missing girl. The Catholic Church however has insisted that it has done everything possible to cooperate. To further assist with the investigation, the Vatican agreed to allow investigators to exhume the body of Italian mobster Enrico De Pedis, who had been linked to the missing girl.
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