VATICAN CITY
Albany Tribune
By CNA — (July 18, 2013)
The priest appointed last month as an interim prelate of the so-called Vatican Bank is associated with the “gay lobby” at the Holy See, according to an article by analyst Sandro Magister released today.
Magister’s column for L’Espresso recounts that Monsignor Battista Mario Salvatore Ricca, who was appointed temporary prelate of the Institute for Works of Religion June 15, had a relationship with another man – the “intimacy” of which was “so open as to scandalize numerous bishops, priests, and laity” of Uruguay, where he served in the nunciature from 1999 to 2004.
Msgr. Ricca was appointed to his position, serving as secretary at meetings of the cardinals’ commission on the Vatican Bank and assisting in meetings of the bank’s board of superintendents, by the commission with the express approval of Pope Francis.
He was intended to be a part of the reform of the scandal-ridden institution.
Yet “just one week” after the appointment, Pope Francis was informed by sources within the Vatican diplomatic corps of “some episodes from Ricca’s past previously unknown to him,” Magister wrote.
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