"The Holy Father is gradually trying to purify it. ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, nicknamed the "Vice-Pope" for his position of influence with the Holy Father, is acknowledging the existence of a "gay lobby" in the Vatican — a group Pope Francis is aware of and is trying to eliminate.
The head of the Pope's Gang of Nine, Maradiaga admitted to the existence of the homosexual cabal in a January 12 interview with the Heraldo de Honduras paper. Asked whether there had ever been "an infiltration of the gay community" at the Vatican, he replied, "Not only that, but the Holy Father has said there is a 'lobby' in this sense. The Holy Father is gradually trying to purify it."
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