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	News Chiesa Cattolica dei Peccatori November 21, 2007 http://www.chiesacattolicadeipeccatori.it/home-page.asp The Rev. Sante Sguotti has posted on his Web site a copy of the five-page letter he send to Bishop Antonio Mattiazzo of Padua. He answered the request to describe his economic conditions to determine if the rebel priest, who is suspended "a divinis," expelled from his parish and waiting for possible excommunication, has the right to get a monthly check from the Padua diocese. Readers can unload the letter by clicking the link "lettera al vescovo" on the right side. The priest justifies his ownership of six apartment buildings, his bank accounts and extra income. The first home was bought in 1997 where the Welcome association resides. Women from foreign countries who entered Italy illegally and were forced to work as prostitutes are taught the Italian language and get minimum education so they can get documents and a job. The priest got a loan from a bank and he is repaying it. He has to pay back to the bank about 10,000 euros. Some of the women who live in the home now have a job and contribute to expenses. The association is now giving him monthly rent of 870 euros, which is much lower than the market rent of 1,800 euros. The second home was given to an Albanian illegal immigrant who could not get a bank loan. The priest helped him with the home and the man eventually got a job and bought the home. The remaining homes were bought for other illegal immigrants from Morocco and Romania, etc., who are giving him a monthly payment for the mortgage or who have become owners of the homes, paying themselves or the mortgage directly to the banks. The priest explained the bank accounts, some of which have a few hundred euros and some accounts are used to pay the mortgages. He makes a list of all income derived from his TV appearances, affirming the money will go to the Chiesa Cattolica dei Peccatori and to charities. He believes his job as a truck driver will give him monthly income of 1,000 euros. In conclusion, he asks the bishop to consider his previous activity in the parish as being like a normal employee and he asks for all the rights due to a normal employee according to Italian labor laws. This would include severance payment for which he has started a lawsuit to claim. Rev. Sguotti ends by saying, "If you were intellectually honest you wouldn't only give me what has been established by the canon law, but you would add much more, for if with a little monthly stipend of 1,000 euros I got in the past I was able to accomplish so much, I would with a little more money be able to accomplish much more."
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