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239:) during this time, he was forgiven by the Catholic Church and continued working within its hierarchy. Such less-than-pleasant facts were not widely publicized in the press at the time and were systematically omitted from all of Gelmini's official biographies. Gelmini's last run-in with the law before the filing of
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in June 2010, Gelmini dismissed the accusations as a "denigrating campaign of lies" and described the allegations as unfounded and impossible because of his advanced age at the time of the alleged abuse episodes. Defense lawyer
Lanfranco Frezza offered the explanation that some of the accusers bore a
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when he declared that "... the
Muslims in Italy will soon be 10-15% of the population and they will put at risk the purity of our values. A time has come for them to plunder our cities; today they have a buzzword: marry Catholic women to convert them to Islam. It is necessary to stop this vermin.".
180:. (In publications, the Comunità Incontro records the 13 February 1963 date of Gelmini's meeting with the young drug addict, Alfredo Nunzi, as the date of its founding, although its first center at the Amelia mill was only opened on 27 September 1979.)
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Think about what happened in
America, the instrumentalisation of American paedophile priests. The church made an error in paying compensation. If I make a mistake, the entire Catholic Church should not have to pay for me. .
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successfully expanded into a veritable network of services dedicated to the addicted and their varieties of social problems. At the beginning of the 1990s, Gelmini volunteered to be injected with an experimental
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Gelmini's trial was due to start in 2011, but was deferred several times, also due to his declining wealth conditions, and with his death in 2014 cannot be held anymore, as any crime would get extinct.
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But this seems as if it was a strategic act made by this global lobby - how shall I put it - the fashionable radical Jewish lobby, which emanates from
America. . . and tries to weaken the whole church.
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rehabilitation center, Gelmini was indicted in June 2010, but the trial was deferred several times due to his wealth conditions and with his death in 2014 any crime would be extinct. Gelmini had been
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report on tensions in Jewish-Catholic relations described the
Catholic Church as a target of additional criticism when Gelmini placed blame for the sexual abuse accusations on unspecified "
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grudge against
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Gelmini reversed himself after the issue of anti-Jewish hostility was raised and extended an apology to the Jews for his remarks. Still persisting in assigning blame by accusing the
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during their sexual encounter. Prosecutor Carlo Maria Scipio and deputy prosecutor
Barbara Mazzulo ordered the launch of an investigation. In 2008, Gelmini was
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organization had grown to encompass more than two hundred chapters around the world by the late 2000s, including a number outside Italy and as far away as
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in 1949. Gelmini's younger brother, Angelo
Gelmini (born 1931), was ordained in 1952 and is well known as Padre Eligio. Gelmini transferred to work in
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by prosecutors. (He was arrested a total of three times between 1960 and 1976.) The troubled
Gelmini left Italy but ran into similar trouble in
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A highly visible social figure towards the end of the 1980s, Gelmini produced written works in the 1990s which described both
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presented a speech on the occasion of
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by St. Paul's Press. In Italy, Gelmini's work became a subject of various domestic writers.
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during the 2000s uncovered that in the 1960s and 1970s Gelmini was investigated for the
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724:"New Hope for Sero-Positive Intravenous Drug Abusers in a Therapeutic Community House".
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s therapeutic approach and his own experiences. Some writing was translated into
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in the 1950s where he become the personal secretary of the Argentine cardinal
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as the face of the fight against drugs, but embarrassed Alliance leader
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reports worldwide have described Gelmini as politically well-connected.
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Ngo Dinh Diem. In Italy, he received a four-year prison sentence for
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charges in the 2000s occurred in 1976, when he was investigated for
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A Plan for Life Community Encounter: Origins, History, Growth
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950:"Sex Abuse Charges a 'Conspiracy': Priest"
661:Comunità Incontro. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
366:Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal
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326:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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464:values and ideas without compromise
828:Giannino, Alberto (18 June 2010).
524:. Roma Morena: Edizioni OCD, 2007.
513:. Turin: San Paolo Edizioni, 1999.
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767:"Don Gelmini, il bene e il male".
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