Anti-immigrant Northern League
leader Matteo Salvini defended his foul-mouthed outbursts
against the Church Tuesday, claiming he is only angry with "two
or three bishops who ought to go around with the red flag".
"Luckily they are only a few," the rightwing populist
leader told Affaritaliani.it, "and luckily the Church does so
many positive things - oratories, missions, parishes".
"I haven't got it in for the Church, I have it in for two
or three bishops who ought to go around with the red flag
instead of wearing cassocks".
"Two or three bishops aren't enough to ruin 2,000 years of
commitment".
Nevertheless Salvini lashed out at Italian Bishops
Conference (CEI) Secretary-General Monsignor Nunzio Galantino,
saying "he could have thought of it before," in a sneer at the
prelate's decision not to take part in a conference on Christian
Democrat statesman Alcide De Gaspari being organised Tuesday in
the northern city of Trento.
Salvini began his tirade against the Church after the CEI
chided the government for not doing more for migrants and
Galantino lambasted the Northern League for its allegedly racist
stances.
Salvini said certain bishops were a "pain in the neck".
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