Vatican: Child Porn Criminal Reinstated as Senior Official in Secretariat of State
He was a senior diplomat at the apostolic nunciature in Washington, D.C., until 2017. In 2018, he was sentenced to five years in prison by a Vatican City court for “possessing and distributing child pornography in large quantities”.
News of Capella's reinstatement first surfaced on Saturday on the website InfoVaticana.com. It reported that he had been seen in the Vatican and was "probably active in internal tasks".
The Pillar, a Substack.com-account, adds that Capella was allowed to resume work in the second section of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State in 2023. He was reintroduced to the office in "an act of mercy".
Initially, he was allowed to work without a title or official designation.
In 2025, he appeared on the Vatican’s official list of departmental officials for the first time. The Annuario Pontificio 2025 classed him among the minutanti, or senior clerks, with his name appearing alongside several section heads.
Capella was ordained as a priest in the Archdiocese of Milan in 1993.
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