Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures

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Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures

gloria.tv | July 12, 2025

The former Vatican diplomat Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella - who was convicted for possessing and distributing child pornography in 2018 – has been quietly reintegrated into the Vatican’s inner circles, reports InfoVaticana.com (July 12).

Ordained to the priesthood in 1993, Rev Capella joined the Vatican diplomatic service in 2003. He served in India and Hong Kong, as well as at the Vatican Secretariat of State, before being sent to the Nunciature in Washington, D.C. in 2016.

In August 2017, the U.S. State Department alerted Vatican authorities that Monsignor Capella was suspected of violating U.S. child pornography laws.

The U.S. pushed for prosecution, but Francis' Vatican shielded Capella through diplomatic immunity. Francis – who was known for protecting perverts – brought Capella back to the Vatican and opted to try and imprison him there.

During the Vatican trial in June 2018, Capella acknowledged guilt. He was sentenced to five years in a Vatican prison, consisting of three jail cells in the Gendarmerie building.

As of 2021 he was allowed out during the day to work in an office that sells papal blessings.

Today, InfoVaticana received an update: “The reinsertion of this criminal has not consisted in taking care of his elderly mother in a remote parish, but in living in San Benedetto, the residence destined for nuncios, a few meters from where Pope Leo XIV himself resides.”

And, “The information, confirmed by an eyewitness who was with him in the last hours, shows that Capella is not only free, but protected and probably active in ‘internal tasks’. Of what kind? We do not know, but in any case, it does not seem that his depraved history has prevented his integration into the clerical circuits closest to power.”

In summary: “Everything indicates that the lavendermafia, far from dissolving, continues to grant safe-conducts to its fallen members.”