Abuser priest attends Vatican symposium on priesthood - witnesses

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Source: Reuters

Abuser priest attends Vatican symposium on priesthood - witnesses

Philip Pullella
Fri, February 18, 2022, 9:25 AM·2 min read

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican symposium on the priesthood, including discussions on sexual abuse, was embarrassed on Friday by the discovery that a French priest disciplined for alleged sexual abuse was among the attendees, witnesses said.

The priest was Father Tony Anatrella, 81, who was barred from public ministry in France in 2018 after a Church investigation found that he abused adult seminarians he was treating in so-called conversion therapy aimed at suppressing their homosexuality.

The Vatican declined to comment, but a Church source confirmed Anatrella's presence after it was first reported by the French Catholic newspaper La Croix.

Anatrella was seen at the symposium by the La Croix reporter as well as a reporter for the French Catholic news agency I Media, one of whom spoke to him.

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