A renowned Belgian prankster posted footage Wednesday showing the
leader of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church Andre-Joseph Leonard being hit
four times by custard pies.
Posted on YouTube by practical joker
'The Glooper,' who has already successfully targeted French President
Nicolas Sarkozy and billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the clip
was filmed during a speaking engagement at the Catholic University of
Louvain-la-Neuve, near Brussels.
Footage obtained by AFP shows a stunned Leonard's face and black winter coat covered in a white foam-like product.
It is the second time the archbishop has been targeted.
Leonard
enraged gays last year when he suggested AIDS stemmed from the wrath of
God, labelling the disease "a sort of intrinsic justice."
One of
those who ran up and slapped a custard pie in Leonard's face told
Belgian media that "for all those homosexuals who daren't tell their
parents they are gay, for all those young girls who want to have an
abortion, he absolutely deserved it."
The Belgian Catholic church
is facing calls from lawmakers to compensate victims of a massive child
sex abuse scandal going back decades, with more than 500 cases
documented by a church-backed commission last year.