Ex Vatican diplomat found guilty of possessing child pornography

 

The president of the court reads the sentence against father Carlo Alberto Capella, a Catholic priest sentenced to five years in jail for possessing child pornography, during a trial at the Vatican June 23, 2018. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS
 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican court on Saturday sentenced a Catholic priest to five years in jail for possessing child pornography while he was based in the United States as a diplomat.

 

Carlo Alberto Capella will serve time in the small jail inside the Vatican police force headquarters, the Vatican said.

 

The trial lasted two days and Capella admitted at the first hearing on Friday that he had developed a "morbid" desire after he arrived in the United States to take up the diplomatic post in the Vatican's embassy in Washington in 2016.

 

"It was never part of my priestly life before," he told the court, adding that he was unhappy in Washington.

 

The U.S. State Department notified the Vatican in August 2017 of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See accredited to Washington.

 

The United States later requested that Capella's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution there, but the Vatican refused.

 

Police in Windsor, Canada said after Capella was recalled to Rome that they had issued an arrest warrant for him on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography on the internet while visiting a church in Canada.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-23

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The United States later requested that Capella's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution there, but the Vatican refused

... in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Catholic church worldwide and the poor reputation of budism in Thailand make it difficult for people  who may seek spiritual guidence to obtain it .

Anyone surprised ? It's a cleric Mafia structure.

And believers finance it.

4 minutes ago, Deli said:

Anyone surprised ? It's a cleric Mafia structure.

And believers finance it.

 

They put him in prison, if it were a mafia would you not expect them to be protecting him?

Any religion is fallible because all religions are man-made. If you need a spiritual crutch, you're better off with psychological rather than clerical help.

19 minutes ago, car720 said:

The most expensive real estate anywhere in the world is owned by them.

Kiddy fiddlers the lot and it goes back centuries.

 

Corrupt, sexual perverts including pedophiles, whose dark secrets over the centuries can only be guessed at. 

 

A worse example of a very evil organization exploiting religion for its own enrichment and desires over many centuries would be hard to find.

 

One wonders what they have deliberately covered up, hidden and suppressed, to advance their own corrupt agendas.

11 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

They put him in prison, if it were a mafia would you not expect them to be protecting him?

 

Wouldn't extradite him. Keeping him in their own little prison, so they say. 

 

Would you believe them?

6 minutes ago, smotherb said:

Any religion is fallible because all religions are man-made. If you need a spiritual crutch, you're better off with psychological rather than clerical help.

 

How do you know? 

 

Quote

What we do need is to show which professionals, using which therapeutic approaches, can achieve significantly more than amateurs do. Carol Sherrard (1991), for example, reviewed 41 studies comparing the effectiveness of professional with non-professional helpers. Twenty-eight of these revealed no difference in outcome, 12 showed the non-professionals to be more effective, and only one study concluded that the professional group was more effective.

https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - Collection 3/Feltham (Ed.) - Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (1999).pdf

1 minute ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Wouldn't extradite him. Keeping him in their own little prison, so they say. 

 

Would you believe them?

 

The US does the same, it always seeks to extradite their criminals, they are merely reciprocating.

3 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Wouldn't extradite him. Keeping him in their own little prison, so they say. 

 

Would you believe them?

Yes.

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Corrupt, sexual perverts including pedophiles, whose dark secrets over the centuries can only be guessed at. 

 

A worse example of a very evil organization exploiting religion for its own enrichment and desires over many centuries would be hard to find.

 

One wonders what they have deliberately covered up, hidden and suppressed, to advance their own corrupt agendas.

I hope before the day I go to "heaven"....lol, that I get to see the churches taxed worldwide, it would only be fair wouldn't it.

Edited June 24, 20188 yr by 4MyEgo

2 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

How do you know? 

 

https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - Collection 3/Feltham (Ed.) - Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (1999).pdf

I'll start with your quote which compares professional with amateur.

 

I compared psychologists with clerics; which are the amateurs?

 

How do I know? Research and analysis.

3 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

They put him in prison, if it were a mafia would you not expect them to be protecting him?

"They put him in prison" really don't mean squat when the prison is the vatican's personal police jail, located behind their "holy" walls and not crammed full of any threats. I'm not impressed 

ALL religions are about MONEY, POWER AND CONTROL OF THE POPULATION.  And of course a little bit on the side. Bastards should be hung drawn and quartered.!!!

19 hours ago, jippytum said:

The Catholic church worldwide and the poor reputation of budism in Thailand make it difficult for people  who may seek spiritual guidence to obtain it .

So a senior catholic clergyman found guilty of possessing child pornography becomes an excuse to bash the majority faith in thailand.

Unbelievable.

As for your top of the head anecdote about Buddhism in thailand...this smacks of 'agenda'.

My experience of thai people suggests that while it may not be what it was the religion remains a big part of thai life and culture and still has a lot of petrol in the tank.

1 hour ago, rodney earl said:

ALL religions are about MONEY, POWER AND CONTROL OF THE POPULATION.  And of course a little bit on the side. Bastards should be hung drawn and quartered.!!!

not ALL of them . 

This priest is only small fry. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's third-highest ranking official is on trial in Australia on sex abuse charges. Not saying he is guilty, just on trial. But I am saying they don't send people to trial who they think might be innocent.

On 24. Juni 2018 at 1:24 PM, Kieran00001 said:

 

They put him in prison, if it were a mafia would you not expect them to be protecting him?

Which most likely is a kind of 5* Hotel, where he is protected. Would hardly survive in a regular prison.

On 6/24/2018 at 1:39 PM, stevenl said:

Yes.

 

 You believe he Catholic church. Right oh. Good luck with that.

Edited June 26, 20188 yr by Baerboxer

Yes. ALL OF THEM !!!