Vatican official not gay - not that there's anything wrong with it

A Vatican official claims he is not gay, stating he was pretending to gather intel on online gay chat rooms. Intriguing story inside!

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If you haven't seen it, this is a hilarious story: Vatican Official Insists He's Not Gay:

A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was

only pretending to be gay as part of his work.

In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."

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