Carlo Capella, convicted for child pornography, reinstated in the Vatican Curia

Today, seven years later, we discover that this criminal’s reintegration has not consisted of caring for his elderly mother in some remote parish, but rather of living at San Benedetto, the residence designated for Vatican nuncios, just a few meters from where Pope Leo XIV himself resides.

According to a direct witness who saw him in recent hours, Capella is not only free, but protected, and likely engaged in “internal duties.” Of what kind? We don’t know — but in any case, his depraved record doesn’t seem to have impeded his integration into the clerical circuits closest to power. All signs point to the “lavender mafia” — far from disbanded — still providing safe conduct to its fallen members.

Reintegration? No: Institutional cover-up

Meanwhile, hundreds of traditional priests are punished: no altar, no parish, no right to celebrate Mass in peace. But Capella resides in an elite residence. As they remind us from Rome, they protect each other. It’s not the first time. It won’t be the last.

• Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington and a predator for decades, was protected by top officials until public pressure made it unsustainable.
• Gustavo Zanchetta, the Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis, convicted of sexual abuse against seminarians, was “welcomed” back into the Vatican for a job reinvention among administrative paperwork — fleeing civil justice with Bergoglio’s help.
• Francesco Coccopalmerio, an influential cardinal, not only sponsored careers like Capella’s but also had a secretary arrested in the middle of a homosexual orgy with drugs… in an apartment owned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — perhaps the very one later assigned to Cardinal Prevost, who still lives there today as Pope.

And now Capella. A confirmed consumer of child pornography, rewarded with a second chance — in the very heart of ecclesiastical power.

San Benedetto: A stronghold of impunity

The San Benedetto residence is no ordinary building. It’s a symbol. It houses high-ranking officials of Vatican diplomacy. Mons. Bertomeu lived there upon his arrival in Rome. And now so does Capella, alongside figures like Gugerotti.

We are not looking at isolated cases, but at a structure of complicity — a viscous web of silence, favors, reciprocal promotions, and omertà.

And meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV…

Just a few meters away lives Pope Leo XIV. If he truly wants to break this network — and not merely issue vague declarations — he must start by explaining why a convicted priest like Capella remains under Vatican protection.

The purification of the Church will not come through synodal PowerPoint presentations about “inclusion,” but by casting out of the Temple the corrupters of minors — and those who protect them.

If there is no action with clarity and firmness, the message is clear: the lavender mafia still rules. And it does so from within.

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by Jaime Gurpegui