FRANCE
The Freethinker
Monsignor Tony Anatrella, above, a consultant with the Vatican on issues of sexuality and an outspoken homophobe, has been accused of having sex with novice priests … in a bid to cure them of homosexuality.
The senior French priest, according to this report, routinely counseled novices sent to him by seminaries and monasteries across France. But at least four have claimed that he engaged in sexual acts with them during sessions in his office in Paris.
Anatrella reportedly claimed that having sex with them would cure them of:
Pseudo-homosexuality.
Daniel Lamarca, who was a 23-year-old seminarian when he first went to Anatrella in 1987 said he was told by Anatrella:
You’re not gay, you just think that you are.
Lamarca added:
I know details about Anatrella’s body that could only be known to someone who has seen him naked.
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