Prominent French priest and Vatican adviser accused in sex scandal

[gilliam]

For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality.

Now Anatrella, who argues that gay men cannot be ordained as priests, is facing mounting allegations that he himself had sex with male clients under his care, a scandal that could have repercussions all the way to the Vatican, where the priest is still regularly consulted on matters of sexuality.

The reports about Anatrella that have emerged in recent weeks also landed just as the Catholic Church in France has been embroiled in a crisis over charges that senior churchmen shielded priests even after they received reports that the clerics had molested children.

cruxnow.com/church/2016/05/20/prominent-french-priest-and-vatican-adviser-accused-in-sex-scandal/

 

[RPRPsych]

For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality.

Now Anatrella, who argues that gay men cannot be ordained as priests, is facing mounting allegations that he himself had sex with male clients under his care, a scandal that could have repercussions all the way to the Vatican, where the priest is still regularly consulted on matters of sexuality.

The reports about Anatrella that have emerged in recent weeks also landed just as the Catholic Church in France has been embroiled in a crisis over charges that senior churchmen shielded priests even after they received reports that the clerics had molested children.

cruxnow.com/church/2016/05/20/prominent-french-priest-and-vatican-adviser-accused-in-sex-scandal/

Sacre bleu!

I must confess, though, that the tone of the article seems a bit “off” to me. Restrictions on gays entering the priesthood are official Church policy, aren’t they?

Nevertheless, if this turns out to be true, we have our very own Ted Haggard.

 

[JurisPrudens]

For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality.

Now Anatrella, who argues that gay men cannot be ordained as priests, is facing mounting allegations that he himself had sex with male clients under his care, a scandal that could have repercussions all the way to the Vatican, where the priest is still regularly consulted on matters of sexuality.

The reports about Anatrella that have emerged in recent weeks also landed just as the Catholic Church in France has been embroiled in a crisis over charges that senior churchmen shielded priests even after they received reports that the clerics had molested children.

cruxnow.com/church/2016/05/20/prominent-french-priest-and-vatican-adviser-accused-in-sex-scandal/

The story looks suspicious. Sounds like he is a convenient target for false accusations.

 

[Petaro]

It is so easy to vilify a man by innuendo, whispered accusations with no proof except the word of some who may find value in destroying a man’s reputation. I would not even republish the article without an impartial investigation by some authority with the backing of law. It is wrong to spread scandal without real proof.