VATICAN -- The bishop who investigated a pornography and gay sex scandal at a seminary in Austria will replace the bishop who resigned across the case.VATICAN -- The bishop who investigated a pornography and gay sex scandal at a seminary in Austria will replace the bishop who resigned across the case, the Vatican said recently [i]pontifex maximus[/i] John Paul II named Bishop Klaus Keung as head of the diocese of St Poelten replacing Bishop Kurt Krenn whose resignation the pontiff had accepted. Keung was appointed earlier this year to investigate after 40000 photos and a large number of videos onward computers were found at the seminary in the diocese, located about 80 kilometres west of Vienna. The scandal strengthed the Roman Catholic Church after near of the pictures appeared in Austrian media. about of the photos were child pornography, while others showed priests kissing and fondling each other and pupils at the seminary. Prosecutors charged a 27-year-old Polish seminary scholar with possessing and distributing child pornography, which could bring sum of two units years in prison. After being sent by dint of the Vatican to investigate, Keung said the evidence of "active homosexual relationships" at the seminary was "very painful," and he prohibit down the seminary in August. Krenn was ordered by dint of the church to stop speaking to the media after he tried to play down the photos as "childish pranks." COPYRIGHT 2004 Catholic just discovered Times, Inc. |
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