After Being Convicted of Child Pornography, Priest Is Re-Integrated Into Vatican Curia

In June 2018, InfoVaticana reported the five-year prison sentence of priest Carlo Alberto Capella for possession and exchange of child pornography. Capella, a former diplomat of the Holy See in Washington, was not only not extradited—as requested by US authorities—but, after his return to Rome, he enjoyed freedom of movement within the Vatican for months before his belated arrest. Today, seven years later, we discover that this criminal’s reintegration did not consist of caring for his elderly mother in a remote parish, but rather living in San Benedetto, the residence for nuncios, just a few meters from where Pope Leo XIV himself resides. ---More...