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Did Vatican push Italian bishop to cancel meeting gay leaders? October 19, 2007
The Vatican pressed an Italian bishop to cancel plans for a meeting with members of a homosexual activist group, the newspaper Il Giornale reports.
Bishop Franco Agostinelli of Grosseto, Italy, pulled out of a planned meeting with Arcigay members on October 17, after his plan to visit the group became public. The bishop explained that he had intended a quiet conversation, as a means of opening dialogue with gay activists, but chose not to go through with the plan because it might be interpreted as “recognition for Arcigay.”
Il Giornale, however, reports that Vatican officials intervened to persuade Bishop Agostinelli that the meeting would be a mistake.
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