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Sept. 11 - Sept. 18, 2011 |
“It’s a diabolic smear campaign”: Fedele Bisceglia
Former priest convicted of raping nun says Catholic Church plotted against him
By Letizia Tesi
Originally Published: 2011-07-17
“That sin never even entered my mind. It’s diabolic smear campaign, but I forgive them all because I’m a great missionary.”
That sin is the rape of a nun, Tania Alesci of the Francescane dei Poveri order, for which Father Fedele Bisceglia was condemned in a Cosenza court to nine years and three months.
He expected a complete absolution, and outside the Palazzo di Giustizia on Wednesday, he exploded with the vehemence of a preacher from the olden days – “Savonarola (15th century Dominican friar) style” as he says.
He shouted out his anger, telling everyone – judges, nuns, priests – to be ashamed of themselves and repent. Now instead, he forgives them all because he feels “strong like a lion and proud, actually superbly proud, to be on the list of the persecuted,” like Jesus, and the apostles.
His only sin, he says, was that of becoming “too strong” because throughout his lifetime, he has always sided with the poor.
“I defended Rom children, the sick, the orphaned. I became too strong and that’s why they accused me with this diabolical defamation. And they didn’t choose a lay person, but a poor, desperate nun, full of problems. But I forgive her. I forgive them all.”
Father Fedele finds the strength to forgive through the faith and courage of going forward in Jesus’s example: “I thank the Lord who gave me a huge spirit of toleration and I follow Jesus, who was sold out by an apostle, abandoned by everyone, and crucified. Jesus said ‘they’ll take you to court, and lying, they’ll say all sorts of bad things. Be joyful and exult because your compensation in the heavens will be great.’ That’s the Christ I follow.”
His, he says, is a battle not to prove his innocence, but for “the conversion of my sister” who accused him. “It was a Church plot in the fullest sense behind this colossal blasphemous defamation because I defended the Istituto Papa Giovanni, where there were 365 mentally ill, and Rom children who had been abandoned by their mothers. Maybe I stepped on someone’s toes. I think there are also political motives behind this sentencing.” There are too many incongruencies in Sister Tania’s deposition: “Do you know how many times she changed the time and place of this supposed rape? But how is it possible that a woman doesn’t remember the day she was raped? And three are supposedly gang rapes.”
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