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  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, is here at his workstation at the Addiopizzo Travel headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: (L-R) Chiara Utro (31) and Francesca Vannini Parenti (33) of the Addiopizzo Travel staff, work here at the headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Seats with the names of Giovanni (Falcone) and Paolo (Borsellino), the two anti-mafia judges assassinated by the mafia in 1992, are here at the entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach by Addiopizzo in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: The gazebo and sitting area of  Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Bathers are here by the Sconzajuoco beach, managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo bags are on sale here at Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, steps inside the Addiopizzo Travel headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
 <br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo stickers are here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: A reading corner at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: An Addiopizzo t-shirt hangs on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The bulletin board here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: An Addiopizzo t-shirt hangs on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo t-shirts hang on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo stickers are here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, sits in the meeting room of the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The meeting room of the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The conference room at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: "The people who pay the pizzo are a people without dignity", the phrase that appeared  is written here at the headquarters of the Addiopizzo in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: The "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, is held by Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist, here in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here reading the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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