CATANIA – SICILY (ITALY)
La Stampa

December 1, 2017

By Fabio Albanese, Translated by Anna Martinelli

One of the minors who refused and reported everything was isolated from the community of faithful, very devoted to the priest

For at least three years a priest who worked in the parish of a working-class district of Villaggio Sant’Agata, on the southern outskirts of Catania, would have abused children who were entrusted to him. Not only he would frighten those who did not want to undergo his “rites”, carried out with a great deal of holy oil. The Carabinieri (one of Italy’s police corps e.d.) arrested him this morning: Padre Pio Guidolin is accused of aggravated sexual violence against minors.

According to investigations, the priest, who for some time had already been subject to precautionary measures by the Curia of Catania, exploited his role and, “took advantage of the particularly fragile situation…