Writer: Atheist Republic
Subject: Ex-Vatican adviser faces trial after claiming he could cure gay men by having sex with them
Link: 26.07.2021 / newsletter@atheistrepublic.com
Ex-Vatican adviser faces trial after claiming he could cure gay men by having sex with them
Tony Anatrella, an eighty-year-old French psychotherapist, a Catholic priest, and former Vatican adviser, has been plagued by allegations of sexual abuse for the last twenty years.
In 2006, Daniel Lamarca went public with his claims of sexual abuse by Anatrella in an interview with Dutch newspaper Nederlands Dagblad. He said the priest told him he could cure him of his “pseudo-homosexuality” by having sex with him.
Two more anonymous accusations from previous patients of Anatrella also surfaced in 2006, but they were dismissed due to the statute of limitations and a lack of evidence. Anatrella also claimed that gay people had a whole host of problems, including “a narcissistic position in front of a community that disturbs, even to the point of dividing it.” He encouraged protests against same-sex marriage in France in 2013. Finally, according to the National Catholic Reporter, the Paris Archdiocese has confirmed that Anatrella will face trial in a church court.
Xtianity is hypocrisy. No two ways about it.