Uruguayan newspaper confirms accusations of homosexual conduct by Vatican bank appointee

Monsignor Battista Ricca

July 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Uruguay's largest-circulation newspaper, El País, is reporting that local sources within the Catholic Church have confirmed recent reports regarding the past homosexual conduct of the pope's recent appointment to lead the troubled "Vatican bank," the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR).

The sources consulted by the newspaper appear to strongly confirm claims made by the Italian newspaper L'Espresso that Monsignor Battista Ricca, a former Vatican diplomat, was well-known for homosexual conduct during his interim management of the Holy See's diplomatic office in Uruguay from 1999 to 2001. 

Sources within the Catholic Church in Uruguay told El Pais that "it's totally true," in the words of the newspaper. The newspaper added that the unnamed sources "believed that this person could only have been recommended to the pope for a post in bad faith."  (more...)

Uruguayan newspaper confirms accusations of homosexual conduct by Vatican bank appointee