VATICAN CITY
Irish Independent
NICK SQUIRES ROME – 20 JULY 2013
The Holy See is involved in a fresh scandal after it was claimed that a priest appointed to a key role in the Vatican bank had a string of homosexual affairs that forced his recall from an overseas posting.
Pope Francis recently appointed Monsignor Battista Ricca as his “eyes and ears” within the bank after introducing reforms aimed at curtailing alleged money laundering, tax evasion and other financial abuses.
However, yesterday it was claimed that Msgr Ricca (57) who had a 15-year career as a Vatican diplomat, allegedly shocked fellow priests and nuns at the Holy See’s embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, by having a homosexual affair with a captain in the Swiss army.
The monsignor allegedly met the officer, named as Captain Patrick Haari, during an earlier posting to Berne in Switzerland, and the soldier accompanied him to Uruguay.
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