Caught In Act: Priests are being blackmailed by male prostitutes who work at a sauna near Vatican

[kpete]

Michael Chase Walker
?@mchasewalker

The priests are being blackmailed by male prostitutes who work at a sauna in Quarto Miglio district near the Vatican http://thebea.st/YLXrOm

Oh boy.

“What’s coming out is very detailed X-ray of the Roman Curia that does not spare even the closest collaborators of the Pope.

Of all the rumors floating around about just why Pope Benedict XVI is hanging up his camauro, one has taken on a life of its own. According to several well-placed vaticanisti--or Vatican experts--in Rome, Benedict is resigning after being handed a secret red-covered dossier that included details about a network of gay priests who work inside the Vatican, but who play in secular Rome. The priests, it seems, are allegedly being blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes who worked at a sauna in Rome’s Quarto Miglio district, a health spa in the city center, and a private residence once entrusted to a prominent archbishop. The evidence reportedly includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates--sometimes caught on film in drag, and, in some cases, caught ‘in the act’.

The trio of cardinals who authored the report, known in the Italian press as the ‘007 Priests,’ were commissioned by Benedict to dig into the Vatileaks scandal that rocked the Holy See last fall when the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted of stealing secret papal documents and leaking them to the press. The sleuthing cardinals ran a parallel investigation to the Vatican tribunal’s criminal case against the butler, but theirs was far more covert and focused not on the mechanics of the leaks, but on who within the Roman Curia might be the brains behind them. And, according to the leaked reports, what the ‘007 Priests’ found went far beyond the pope’s private desk. “What’s coming out is very detailed X-ray of the Roman Curia that does not spare even the closest collaborators of the Pope,” wrote respected Vatican expert Ignazio Ingrao in Panorama. “The Pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/22/priests-in-panties.html

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A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/pope-retired-amid-gay-bishop-blackmail-inquiry

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Been going on since the beginning of the church...

People are not born to be celibate.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Priests have not always been celibate ........... they used to be able to marry

[Sekhmets Daughter]

7. Yes, now that you mention it....

so it's only been going on for 1,000 years.

[REP]

9. Council of Trent, 1563

[Sekhmets Daughter]

10. But there is also this...

1074-Pope Gregory VII said anyone to be ordained must first pledge celibacy: ‘priests [must] first escape from the clutches of their wives.’


http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/history.htm

[REP]

12. Yup - escape because they were married. And still getting married, until

CoT said can't be married before or after ordination.

Huge problem of church property being inherited by the offspring of priests, but it was those Protestants that really set them off.

Church history is a big fascinating blood and sex drenched read.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

13. Did you see the section going back to the ninth century

about abortions and infanticides taking place in monasteries?

[REP]

15. In which book?

I've read dozens on the Church.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

17. I posted a link....

http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/history.htm

Although I have read books on the histoey of the church...I am too lazy to look through the mess that are my bookcases...

[REP]

18. Coals to Newcastle

I think I've mentioned I know church history pretty well

[snagglepuss]

2. I wonder if this means that all potential Italian candidates for the Office are out

of the running.

[longship]

5. As if nation of origin has anything to do with it?

Just putting this out there for consideration. Or, maybe celibacy might be the core of the issue.

As another poster here observed, maybe we weren't evolved to be celibate.

[kenny blankenship]

3. After all this time, why doesn't the Vatican have its own sauna?

Dear Mr. Pope, your staff on whom you rely to get things done, and I know they get it done since they run the largest charitable organization in the world, has some needs. You may not think highly of these needs. They may seem lowly, earthly, fleshly and temporal - not part of the grand, symmetrical, Celestial plan. Nevertheless they must be met. Instead of hindering them, you could be helping them. Happy priests are more productive priests. Think about it, okay?

[siligut]

19. Right and staff it with male prostitutes

Are you being facetious?

[Berlum]

4. Is Republican male prostitute Jeff Gannon involved?

He had lots of, um, experience, as the official Bush White House Republican Male Escort. It would be no surprise if he was also, um, taking care of the Vatican (R). The official Secret SERVICE logs show Gannon had over 200 visits to the Bush White House, including several unexplained overnighters.

Did he take his Republican services to the international market.

[Cooley Hurd]

23. Guckert!

Oh, how I've missed him!

[Berlum]

24. the Guckster (R)

[Hulk Smash]

8. Well, at least they ain't boys.

And how can you shame the clergy with homosexual prostitutes, when they've withstood the altar boy molestation scandal, apparently unscathed. Have people left the Church? Have they quit contributing to the collection plates? Have they started letting priests get married to, you know, females? Have they opened their priesthood to women? Have they changed their position on condoms? Has anything happened at all in the wake of that scandal? No? So what can we expect in the wake of this one?

[REP]

11. Don't you know that gay is a choice (and a demonic one at that)

Raping children is a disease or something needing mercy and a lot of cover-up, but teh gay is something else that is unforgivable.

Or so it would seem.

[xchrom]

14. Well that was homophobic... And stupid. Nt

[amandabeech]

26. A recent post here on DU gave a list of attenance drops for the RC church

by country.

IIRC, all were down, but Ireland was down 90% to 4%.

Between the laundries and the pedophile priests, even the Irish have had enough.

I'm coming down with something nasty, or I'd look for the post for you.

[Demoiselle]

16. I read that top line as "even the closet collaborators of the pope".

Which makes sense, too, sort of.

[joeybee12]

20. Damn! I've been to the Vatican twice and I never came

across this place...wish I had!!!

[notadmblnd]

21. Yeah but why would the pope have to resign because of it

if he wern't involved intimately?

[Berlum]

22. It's his party house, and there's this thing called responsibility

The buck stops at the Big Guy. If the Vatican City became -- or continued as -- Swing City under his reign, then he does bear some responsibility. He's been hanging out with these dudes for decades.

[derby378]

25. I'm not Roman Catholic, so somebody please help me out here...

There are other churches, such as the Greek Catholic and Maronite churches, who recognize the Pope as the Vicar of Christ, and in so doing, they enjoy communion with the Vatican. In many of these non-Roman churches, priests are allowed to marry and even raise families.

If the Greek Catholics and the Maronites only disagree with the Vatican on a few minor doctrinal issues otherwise, what's the disadvantage in casting your lot with one of them if you feel a calling for the clergy?

[hunter]

31. I imagine it's like serving in the Coast Guard.

They don't get the aircraft carriers, submarines, and nuclear weapons like the Navy does.

Here's a web site, About Byzantine Catholics:

http://www.byzcath.org/index.php/about-us-mainmenu-60

I have some past positive experiences with them, although the relationship that brought me into that was sort of like a David Lynch version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a bloody ending and no wedding.

There's a small Byzantine Catholic community in our own city that meets in the chapel of the local Catholic school, but the majority religion here is Catholic with strong Mexican traditions, which is my wife's religious background. Our family is part of that community.

Personally I'm a heretic and I don't know why anyone would be called to be Catholic clergy at this point in the Church's history. I've met many wonderful Priests, but there are also a some who are dull warm bodies, and a few real stinkers. If the Church wants to survive in the USA and Western Europe they will have to accept women priests and they will have to accept married priests.

I'm not sure how much religion stuck to our kids, but I don't think they've been "called." Since they've both moved out I wouldn't be surprised if they've never attended Mass on their own. We don't pry or expect them to attend Mass during visits with us, but going to Mass is something we do with my wife's parents.

If I'm predicting the future I don't see young adult old grand-kids attending Mass with us. Frankly I'm not sure I see any of us attending Mass. If the corrupt "conservative" faction of the church prevails, the church may not survive.

[RKP5637]

27. All kinds of people like sex, who woulda known! Priests and all! Ain't that something!

And the rest, they lie.

[WinkyDink]

28. "In drag"---How would they differentiate? ;-)

[RKP5637]

29. LOL!!! Maybe hair styles than pointed hats?

[kestrel91316]

30. Why does Ratzinger feel the need to resign over this?

It would be easy for him to just act against those involved.......

..........unless HE is one of those involved, complete with pics........