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Vatican's "Sexorcist" Gags Scandal Bishop
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The man chosen by the Vatican to investigate the St. Poelten sex scandal in Austria has ordered the local bishop not to speak to the media in a bid to halt the damage to the Catholic Church.

The Vatican's investigator dispatched to Austria to probe the seminary at the center of a sex scandal has ordered the local bishop not to speak to the media in a bid to halt the damage being done by the child porn inquiry.

Bishop Klaus Kueng, Pope John Paul II's own choice, is working at uncovering the truth and depth of the scandal that consumed the St Poelten earlier this month and which has been a staple of the Austrian media ever since photographs of clerics at seminary kissing and fondling student priests were published.

Bishop's comments inflaming situation

Local bishop Kurt Krenn has been adding fuel to the media fire through a number of rash statements, specifically one which caused outrage when the described the incidents in the photographs as pranks and a number of comments slamming Islam.
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