Vatican Says No -- Removes Controversial Pro-Migrant Priest Who Housed Illegals

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Priest Massimo Biancalani had been criticized for hosting more than 250 homeless migrants in his two parishes in Tuscany

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"Unqualifiable is not the post of Matteo Salvini, but what Don Biancalani has done for years in Vicofaro, transforming a parish and an entire neighborhood into a laboratory of false reception, degradation and illegality. After all that has happened, it is frankly surreal that today he also claims to give lessons of responsibility." Susanna Ceccardi, Tuscan MEP of the League, declares it, responding to Don Massimo Biancalani after the Holy See ha…

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Don Massimo Biancalani, the priest of Vicofaro and Ramini in Pistoia, known for having welcomed dozens of migrants, was officially removed from the Vatican and from the Bishop of the diocese, Monsignor Augusto Mascagna, for not having, they say, taken care of the souls of the parishes until the total annihilation of the community life and "for having transformed into a dormitory [...] The article Pistoia, the Vatican removes Don Biancalani: "Con…