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Vatican priest-turned-whistleblower pens world’s only Latin news column
Lucas noah 7 hours ago
He entered the Vatican at age 27 and found himself surrounded by eccentric co-workers. Another Latinist had dated Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in his youth before becoming a priest and had a habit of screaming profanities. Lepore was in heaven, and every day at 11am, he would take tea and chat in Latin with his co-workers.
But the extracurricular activities proved distracting. “Inside the Vatican,” he said, “it got worse.”
He pursued relationships with priests and bishops, some of whom addressed one another with female terms of endearment such as “bella,” he said. Others nicknamed one cardinal Platinette, after a famous Italian drag queen. Lepore became known, he said, as “the star of Hollywood” because he wore a Borsalino hat, cuff links and a pocket watch.
He blames a jealous-whisper campaign for forcing him out of the Latin section. But he landed a spot in the Vatican Library, where he became secretary to powerful French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.
But the excesses of Rome eroded his faith. He stopped celebrating masses, continued dating and started feeling “like a hypocrite”. In a case of self-sabotage, he visited gay pride sites and watched pornography on his office computer. Soon enough, authorities told him he would have to return to Benevento.
“My son, you were too naive,” he recalled the late Tauran telling him.
He announced he would leave the priesthood altogether, and then spent four years, as he put it, in the wilderness. He had a “double coming out” to his parents, about leaving the priesthood and being gay, and they didn’t talk to him for years. He bumped into priests he knew at cruising spots and various bathhouses, including one in a building owned by the Vatican. He said he went to drug-fueled parties at the Abbey of Montecassino, which traces its roots back to St Benedict. He earned some money with private lessons in Latin and religion and some initial reporting jobs, but he felt lost.
In 2013, a cardinal delivered a letter from Lepore explaining his situation to the newly elected Pope Francis. In October, Lepore’s phone rang, with Francis telling him he admired him for his “consistency” and “courage” in not living a double life and that he wanted to help him with his economic travails, according to Lepore.
(A Vatican spokesperson did not return a call for comment.)
But except for an envelope with € 2,000 euros, about $3,170, from a cardinal, no job ever materialised.
Free from the church, Lepore threw himself into activism for gay rights. In February 2019, he became the star witness of Frederic Martel’s buzzy book In the Closet of the Vatican,
where Lepore’s estimate that 80 per cent of the Vatican staff are gay made a splash.
Later that year, Ivan Scalfarotto, a politician who is now an undersecretary in Italy’s Interior Ministry, told the new editor of Linkiesta about a guy who knew everything about the Vatican. The editor, Christian Rocca, was intrigued.
Last year, Rocca floated the idea of a daily column in Latin, which he admitted was not great for search engine optimisation but seemed like it might be fun.
“It seems like madness,” Lepore responded.
And then he immediately got to it.
https://timesnewsexpress.com/news/world/australia/vatican-priest-turned-whistleblower-pens-worlds-only-latin-news-column/
Donald Trump says more American Jews should have voted for him
Exit polls election night found Trump scored between 21% and 30.5% of the Jewish vote. He is also correct that an overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jews voted for him.
By RON KAMPEAS/JTA JUNE 19, 2021 03:59
(JTA) — Donald Trump is still trying to figure out why more American Jews didn’t vote for him, arguing in a haredi Orthodox magazine interview this week that they “don’t love Israel enough” and the Israel-related moves he made as president should have earned him a larger share of the Jewish vote.
“You know what really surprised me?” Trump told Ami Magazine. “I did the Heights, I did Jerusalem, and I did Iran — the Iran Deal was a disaster, right? And I also did many other things. Jewish people who live in the United States don’t love Israel enough. Does that make sense to you? I’m not talking about Orthodox Jews. I believe we got 25% of the Jewish vote, and it doesn’t make sense. It just seems strange to me.”
Trump referred to his decisions to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, which Israel’s government loathes.
Exit polls election night found Trump scored between 21% and 30.5% of the Jewish vote. He is also correct that an overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jews voted for him.
Jewish groups slammed Trump in 2019 after he said that Jews were disloyal for voting for Democrats and doubling down on the claim.
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/donald-trump-says-more-american-jews-should-have-voted-for-him-671444
Whew
2 sizzlers right out the gate!
kek
U.S. Bishops Vote to Move Toward Possible Rebuke of Biden Over Abortion
Tracy Connor Executive Editor Published Jun. 18, 2021 3:46 PM ET
Defying appeals from the Vatican, Catholic bishops in the U.S. have voted to a draft a statement that could lead to a rebuke for President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights but also take Communion. The Associated Press reports that the White House had no immediate comment on the 168-55 decision announced Friday by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The debate over the document exposed deep fissures among the bishops on whether it should go after politicians when two-thirds of Catholics don’t have an issue with the president, who rarely misses Sunday mass and has often spoken of his faith. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego said the statement could unleash “weaponization of the Eucharist,” the Associated Press reported. Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, said rank-and-file Catholics are confused about the disconnect between Biden and the church on abortion and need clarification. The Vatican had urged the American bishop to avoid taking action that would prevent Biden from taking Communion.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-bishops-vote-to-move-toward-possible-rebuke-of-biden-over-abortion
1: FUCK BIDEN
2: Q DROP #4799 - A Church should not be Political and when it does it ceases being simply a church just like a church should not get PPP loans meant for legitimate tax paying businesses but it do!
A lot of people want to push their views on others.
These people are not about Freedom and Liberty or Free Thought.
The Evangelicals, the Mormons, the Catholics, the list seems to be never ending.
They all play a good game yet when it comes right down to it, muh religion is above the Rights of We the People and thats a problem that I guarantee this Republic will be forced to address sooner or later.
The time might not be now since our enemies are attacking everything that we are yet it will come.
As a matter of fact, if you read certain drops, it would appear that Q believes that this time is now as well.
RECONCILE
Hmmm anon gets the flash every now and again.
Oldfags being denied wouldn't shock anon at all yet do you know how to clear browsing data?
That usually stops the flash.
A decent test would have been to try posting using another device.
Anon has had that happen with pro products so its not a conspiracy just yet yet none of us would ever be surprised if it was!
Glad to have you back, faggot!
kek
Ohmuhgerd! the baker has hands!
Anon happens to have 1000's of (you)'s and truly don't GAF yet it's fun to pretend sometimes!
80% OF THE VATICAN STAFF BEING GAY IS A REAL BITCH HUH?
kek
read the drops, faggot!