Vice rector of seminary in homosexual pictures, Sankt Poelten, Austria

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Vice rector Fr. Wolfgang Rothe kisses a seminarian

Vice-Rector of Austrian seminary in homosexual behavior
July 2004 - Above, in two photos published on the Austrian weekly magazine Profil, Fr. Wolfgang Rothe (at left), vice rector of the Sankt Poelten seminary, is shown kissing an unidentified student. Rothe and seminary rector Fr. Ulrich Kuechl have both been accused of having homosexual relations with seminarians.

Photos of seminarians and priests kissing one another and engaging in homosexual behavior were found at Austria's Sankt Poelten seminary by civil prosecutors. They also discovered thousands of pictures and numerous films depicting acts of pedophilia and bestiality.

Bishop Kurt Krenn of the Sankt Poelten Diocese has dismissed the Profil report as "groundless," and called the above pictures nothing more than "harmless pranks" that "have nothing to do with homosexuality."
1Profil magazine, online edition, July 12-17, 2004

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