With Homosexual Vatican Priest Firing, Time to Finally Understand Francis’ ‘Who Am I To Judge?’

By Published on October 5, 2015

Back in July 2013, Pope Francis was on a plane ride back from Brazil when he was asked about Monsignor Battista Ricca. Ricca was Francis’ “eyes and ears” within the Vatican bank, appointed by Francis after launching reforms with an attempt at cracking down on major financial scandal and abuses, such as money laundering and tax evasion. But then l’Espresso published charges that Ricca had behaved scandalously by having an affair with a captain in the Swiss Army. There were also claims about getting beaten up in a gay bar and getting stuck in an elevator with a young man. All of the charges were old, and this is an important point.

These charges were themselves coming to light only weeks after claims of a “gay lobby” at the Vatican. So everyone was all atwitter about it.

Francis was asked on the plane and he said he ordered the investigation required by Canon Law and that the investigation didn’t find anything to accuse him of at that point. He added:

POPE FRANCIS: This is the answer. But I would like to add something else on this: I see that so many times in the Church, outside of this case and also in this case, they go to look for the “sins of youth,” for instance, and this is published. Not the crimes, alas. Crimes are something else: the abuse of minors is a crime. No, the sins.

Read the article “With Homosexual Vatican Priest Firing, Time to Finally Understand Francis’ ‘Who Am I To Judge?’” on thefederalist.com.

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