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	IL Prete Ribelle Il Gazzettino November 30, 2007 http://www.gazzettino.it/VisualizzaArticolo.php3 THE REBEL PRIEST A full immersion in the Chiesa Cattolica dei Peccatori (The Catholic Church of the sinners). "In the path towards reconciliation," the meeting organized by the rebel priest, the Rev. Sante Sguotti, which will take place tomorrow at the Hotel Sheraton in Padua, presents itself as a real and proper voyage within the "non-official" church. To start, the speech by the Rev. Alessandro Pasquinelli, former priest in Pistoia who in 2005 made a plea bargain for a three-year jail term after having being accused of "sexual abuses against minors." Three issues will be dealt with in the meeting. The first (9 a.m.-10.30 a.m.) is titled Divorced and remarried: Forgiveness is Possible; from 11 a.m.-12.30 p.m. there will follow: "Testimony from other Christian confessions upon the praxis for dealing with the divorced". Finally , 3 p.m-4.30 p.m., the third and final issue "Divorced and Remarried: A Path Toward Reconciliation with the Ecclesiastical Community." Te public will be invited to ask questions, then there will be announced the proposals for a real acceptance of the divorced in the Catholic church and finally, Rev. Sguotti, as the host of the meeting, will make the closing remarks. Among the guests will be Serenella Salomoni, sexologist and expert in couples therapy; Paolo Falcone, docent in sociology and expert in canon law and moral philosophy, and other spokespeople from other Christian confessions. From 11.a.m.-12.30 p.m., main speakers like Rev. Lucas Rocco Massimo Giacalone, delegate for Italy of the Bielorussia Orthodox Church, John-Henry Bowden , chaplain of the St. Georges's Anglican Church in Venice, and Caterina Dupre, pastor of the Methodist Church in Padua. There will not be lack of known faces, not only because Rev. Sguotti, after being expelled from his parish, is now part of the renowned "stable" of the famed Vip agent Lele Mora. One of the moderators will also be Raffaelo Tonon, former Big Brother and opinionist of Mediaset (Berlusconi's TV company) and Gianluca Versace, journalist of Canale Italia (Mediaset TV Channel). Today at 6 p.m., after the pause of the past weeks in which Rev. Sguotti kept aloof from the press and from TV stations, the rebel priest will be present at the Mondatori library in Piazza Mondadori library in Piazza Insurrezione with his autobiographical book called "Il mio amore non e' peccato." (My love is not a sin.)
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