ITALY
The Independent (UK)
Tom Brooks-Pollock Monday 12 October 2015
The Pope is facing calls to investigate a friar over allegations that he paid for sex with homeless men while high on poppers.
More than 100 parishioners have signed a letter appealing to Pope Francis to look into the unnamed friar, who is a senior member of the Discalced Carmelites order in Rome.
The letter also calls on Francis to reverse the transfer of another senior priest at the order’s headquarters, Father Alessandro Donati, who revealed the allegations. The unnamed friar was also transferred in the wake of the affair.
Allegations against the friar have been made by a man identified as Sergio Marsini, 54, who said he was working as a prostitute between 2003 and 2007 when the friar paid him three times for sex while high on poppers, The Times reports.
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