Impenitent Communist Deputy Re-Admitted to Priesthood

The Italian Communist Eugenio Melandri, 71, has been re-admitted as a priest by the gay-activist and Bologna Neo-Cardinal Zuppi.
Melandri entered in 1974 the community of the Xaverians. In 1989 he was elected as a Communist EU deputy. This caused his dismissal from the clerical state.
At least he doesn’t play victim, “It is not true that the Church expelled me.” But, “I have made a choice and I knew that there would be consequences,” he told a local TV station.
Melandri was a Communist with the Proletarian Democracy when Christians were dying in Communist gulags.
In 1992 he was elected an Italian MP for Communist Refoundation, a party promoting hatred for religion, abortion, gay pseudo-marriage, mass-immigration, and the legalization of drugs.
In 2018 Melandri discovered that he suffered from pancreas cancer. He asked the Xaverians to be re-admitted and was accepted.
The same year, he participated with them at a Eucharist in Santa Marta. The Xaverians presented him to Francis as …More