Manila – A furious row has erupted in the Philippines over alleged gay sex amongst monks in a Christian monastary.

A defrocked monk, Venancio Cabillon, who is gay, exposed the unusual activities by the Marian Monks of the Eucharistic Adoration monastery in Upper Lindogon, Sibonga, which included a gay beauty pagent and fraud.

Cabillon alleged that the monks in Simala, Sibonga are “living in a world of lies and deceptions like creating seeming miracles on Mama Mary shedding tears of blood, crying and other shenanigans.”

The former monk is also now sueing the head of the Roman Catholic church in the Philippines, Cardinal Vidal, for publishing a statement claiming that Cabillon ” “commits grave faults against the religious vows of the order, as a trafficker of our own members of religious formation, and also violates the vows of chastity and obedience.”

The cardinal’s statement is widely seen as both a bid to gag Cabillion, and as revenge for exposing the scandal the to public.