Guzzanti escapes prosecution over Pope jokes
19 Sep 2008Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti will not face charges over alleged insults of Pope Benedict XVI. At a political rally in July, Guzzanti had joked that the Pope would go to Hell when he died, where he would be harassed by ‘poofter devils’.
Italian Minister of Justice Angelino Alfano said he would not pursue a prosecution as he knew ‘depth of the Pope’s capacity for forgiveness’. Offence to the Pope has been a criminal offence in Italy since the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Vatican and Italy’s Fascist government.
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The current Pope Ratzinger has much to be forgiven by the Italian population in terms of his continuous, unsolicited, anachronistic reproaching and censorial interventions especially on the heterosexual family and its permitted conducts, and on the gay community, to enjoy the grace to forgive Sabina Guzzanti. To say that someone must go to Hell is not after all such a terrible curse, if one recalls that Hell as we know it now was entirely the creation of the Catholic Church. So, if the Pope is sent to Hell by Guzzanti it means that he will go to his other domicile.