Fake bishop tries to sneak into Vatican meeting
The gathering of cardinals in the Vatican was overshadowed not just by scandal
but by farce too, when a German man masquerading as a bishop tried to
infiltrate the meeting.
Ralph Napierski, a self-appointed bishop from an apparently fictional order
called Corpus Dei, managed to get through a checkpoint manned by Swiss
Guards but was stopped before entering the Paul VI Hall, where the cardinals
were gathering.
Dressed in fake bishop’s vestments, complete with a purple sash, Mr Napierski
smiled to photographers as he mixed with more than 140 cardinals from around
the world as they filed into the hall to discuss the challenges facing the
Church and possible “papabili” or papal candidates.
On closer inspection the sash turned out to be a scarf.
Unlike the elderly cardinals, who wore their distinctive red skull caps, the
impostor wore a black fedora-style hat with a rim.
At one point he posed for photographs, shaking hands with Cardinal Sergio
Sebiastiana, an Italian
who is president emeritus of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy
See and a member of the Sovereign Hospitaller Order of the Knights of Malta,
a charitable Catholic organisation.
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The catholic church should learn from this and try to create a data base that contains all the catholic priests, bishops,cardinals,etc, their tumb prints, photograph,etc because if the fake bishop had dress properly he would have infilrated the holy catholic church, thank God he was caught
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