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Here are two who were \u201cclose friends\u201d in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt \u201cplaces frequented by gays\u201d where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis.<\/p>\n
The pair decided to jump off a cliff together but, lacking the nerve, decided, after planning a list of hymns for their funerals, to hire hit men to finish them off instead.<\/p>\n
This amalgam of comic pantomime and maudlin tragedy is brought to you courtesy of a church \u2013 the Roman Catholic Church this time \u2013 which turns a blind – or winking – eye to what used to be called sin.<\/p>\n
Two gay Roman Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill themselves after one of them discovered he had Aids.<\/p>\n
Rafael Reatiga, 35, and Richard Piffano, 37, who had been close friends since training, were discovered shot dead in a car in Southern Bogota, Colombia, in January last year.<\/p>\n
Authorities initially suspected robbery but this week prosecutor Ana Patricia Larrota said investigators had determined that it was a case of suicide by hitmen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are two who were \u201cclose friends\u201d in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt \u201cplaces frequented by gays\u201d where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis. … Continue reading