rooster59 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post klauskunkel Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 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. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jippytum Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 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 . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post car720 Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 The most expensive real estate anywhere in the world is owned by them. Kiddy fiddlers the lot and it goes back centuries. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Deli Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 Anyone surprised ? It's a cleric Mafia structure. And believers finance it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kieran00001 Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 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? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post smotherb Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 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. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Baerboxer Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Baerboxer Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 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? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran00001 Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran00001 Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenl Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, Baerboxer said: Wouldn't extradite him. Keeping him in their own little prison, so they say. Would you believe them? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 4MyEgo Posted June 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 24, 2018 (edited) 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, 2018 by 4MyEgo 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smotherb Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dap Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney earl Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 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.!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expatthailover Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirmud63 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 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 . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cadbury Posted June 25, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2018 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 22 hours 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. Can I suggest a good read? "Blood upon Rome". About the time when there were 2 popes. Both were very bad men from very bad families. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deli Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baerboxer Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 (edited) 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, 2018 by Baerboxer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney earl Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Yes. ALL OF THEM !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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