A new probe into alleged
gay sex at a Vatican junior seminary that supplied altar boys to
St Peter's has found evidence that there were homosexual acts
between boys of the same age but no paedophilia, the Vatican
said at the weekend.
The probe came after journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi reported on
the case in his new book Original Sin and after TV show Le Iene
interviewed one of the alleged participants who is now a priest.
The Vatican said an initial probe in 2013 was carried out by
the heads of the Pio X preseminary and the Archbishop of Como
based on complaints "relating to previous years and which
allegedly involved boys of the same age", but the complaints did
not "find adequate conformation".
But in the light of the new revelations, the Vatican said, a
new probe has been opened "to shed full light on what happened".
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