VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
Rome, July 18 – An Italian weekly has reported of new troubles at the Vatican Bank involving an alleged gay prelate and his “scandalous past”. According to L’Espresso, Monsignor Battista Ricca, who was recently appointed to an office at the bank by Pope Francis, rocked priests and nuns at the Vatican embassy, or nunciature, of Montevideo, Uruguay in 1999 with his amorous conduct involving a Swiss army captain named Patrick Haari. According to L’Espresso’s sources, Ricca secured Haari a job and a place to live in the nunciature, where “the intimacy of the relationship was so shocking” to everyone around that a new nuncio (ambassador) in 2000 appealed unsuccessfully to the Vatican to have Haari removed over the “intolerable menage”. In early 2001, Ricca was allegedly “caught in more than one incident over his reckless conduct,” L’Espresso said.
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