SHOTLIST Vatican City 1. Various of Pope Francis in the pope mobile waving to crowds 2. Various of pope walking towards altar 3. Pope greeting faithful from Pope mobile 4. Pope blessing child 5. Tilt up of website of Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious (CLAR) 6. Pan of CLAR letter apologising for having quoted the Pope without permission, reading (Spanish) "It's clear that based on this one cannot attribute with certainty to the Holy Father singular expressions in the text, but just the general sense. The presidency of CLAR deeply apologies for what happened and the confusion that it generated." 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Austen Ivereigh, Director of Catholic Voices (Catholic media portal): "Sexual orientation is not a bar to being a priest or to working in the Vatican. The problem comes when they are not obeying their vows of celibacy, they have sexual relations. And that is obviously something which they shouldn't be doing and there is obviously an effort of the part of some to cover it up. That's what I assume is meant by the term gay lobby." 8. Bishop with newly married couple 9. Saint Peter's dome Rome 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marco Politi, Vatican analyst, author: "In this sense there doesn't exist in the Vatican a gay lobby. In the Vatican there is a lot of people, we can't say the percent, who have relationship with males or hidden relationships with women and there are single gay people who are part of cliques, they can be right wing, left wing, centre, they can be pro-secretary of state (Tarcisio) Bertone or against secretary of state Bertone. What is clear is that Pope Francis in this conversation had to admit that there are resistances for reforming the Roman curia." Vatican City 11. Bishop posing for photos with tourists 12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Massimo Ponti, Vox Pop: "I don't believe that there are gay lobbies in the Vatican, this is my opinion." 13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) No name given, Vox Pop: "If there is something dirty it has to be cleaned up." 14. Wide of Saint Peter basilica STORYLINE In private remarks to the leadership of a key Latin American church group, Pope Francis lamented that a "gay lobby" was at work at the Vatican. It was an apparent reference to allegations in the Italian media that blackmail was taking place within the Vatican against high-ranking prelates who are gay. The Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious - the regional organisation for priests and nuns of religious orders - confirmed on Tuesday that its leaders had written a synthesis of Francis' remarks after their June 6 audience. The group, known by its Spanish acronym CLAR, said it was greatly distressed that the document had been published and apologised to the pope. In the document, Francis is quoted as saying that while there were many holy people in the Vatican, there was also a current of corruption. The Vatican spokesman, the Reverend Federico Lombardi, said on Tuesday that the audience was private and that as a result he had nothing to say. In the days leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's February 28 resignation, Italian media were rife with reports of a "gay lobby" influencing papal decision-making and Vatican policy through blackmail, and suggestions that the scandal had led in part to Benedict's decision to resign. The unsourced reports, in the Rome daily La Repubblica and the news magazine Panorama, said details of the scandal were laid out in the secret dossier prepared for Benedict by three trusted cardinals who investigated the leaks of papal documents last year. Benedict left the dossier for Francis. At the time, the Vatican denounced the reporting as defamatory, "unverified, unverifiable or completely false." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8d32c341e6cf87adb716bc09d8152f17 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 31 Jul 2015
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