Gabriele Martinelli (far right) holds a missal in front of Pope Francis on March 14, 2013, during the newly elected pontiff’s first Mass inside the Sistine Chapel.

Four former students at the minor seminary located in the Vatican testified May 12 at the ongoing trial of Fr. Gabriele Martinelli, who is accused of sexually abusing a younger student at the St ...

A onetime seminarian, the Rev. Gabriele Martinelli, is accused of molesting a younger seminarian when Martinelli himself was a senior altar boy at St. Pius X.

Partially overturning a first-instance ruling from 2021, judges sentenced Father Gabriele Martinelli to two and a half years’ imprisonment. (Reuters pic) ...

A Vatican prosecutor requested that Fr. Gabriele Martinelli, who is accused of sexually abusing a younger student at the St. Pius X Pre-Seminary, be sentenced to six years in prison if convicted.

Gabriele Martinelli was accused of repeatedly abusing a fellow boarder at a seminary for altar boys before he became a priest. The seminary’s rector has been accused of looking the other way. By ...

Fr. Gabriele Martinelli, 28, and Fr. Enrico Radice, 72, were present in the Vatican courtroom for the eight-minute hearing Oct. 14, accompanied by their lawyers. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

The scandal erupted in 2017 when former altar boys went public with allegations of misconduct by Martinelli and a cover-up by the superiors at the St. Pius X seminary, which sits inside a palazzo ...

The Vatican’s prosecutor requested a sentence of eight years in prison, reduced to four years, for 28-year-old defendant Father Gabriele Martinelli, who is accused of sexually assaulting a ...

L.G. has alleged that Gabriele Martinelli, now 28 and now a priest, repeatedly forced him to have sex, mostly while they were both minors in the Pius X Pre-Seminary.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Vatican judges on Wednesday (Oct. 6) cleared two priests of charges related to alleged sexual abuse of an underage student at the Pius X Pre-seminary, a boarding school that ...