Monsignor Marco Agostini has been dismissed from his post at the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff following the emergence of a recording in which he allegedly used an inappropriate term while referring to members of the Roman Curia.
The decision was taken after an audio clip circulated online in which a voice identified as that of the senior Vatican cleric can be heard using the Italian slur “culattoni”, a term equivalent to the English word “faggot”, during a private exchange ahead of a Christmas greeting with Pope Leo XIV and the Curia. Reports indicate that the remark was made unknowingly while a microphone was still switched on. Furthermore, before Leo XIV delivered his address, Monsignor Agostini was heard on the open microphone saying “assholes, all together”, referring to the Curia.
