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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.”

Look, I don’t care what gets the Monsignor (or anyone else, for that matter) off.  But isn’t hypocrisy some kind of sin?



Now Playing: Episode 368

 
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Terror in Mumbai, the collapse of Seattle banking and an update on the new Obama cabinet.

Links Mentioned: A timeline of the Mumbai carnage … SAM and WaMu … some early warning signs of trouble at the Seattle bank … Obama’s new Labor secretary?