Image source, Rosario Lonegro
- Author, Davide Ghiglione
- Role, BBC News
- Reporting from Rome
Rosario Lonegro was only 20 years old when he entered a Catholic seminary in Sicily as an aspiring priest preparing to be ordained. But while he was there he fell in love with another man and his superiors demanded that he undergo conversion therapy intended to erase his sexual preferences if he wanted to continue on the path to the priesthood.
“It was the darkest period of my life,” he told the BBC, recalling his seminary…
