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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked report accuses priests of running brothels on Vatican-owned property
Vatican-owned properties in Rome are operating as seedy saunas and massage parlours where priests pay for sex, according to the latest in a series of leaked reports to embarrass the Church.
It is also claimed that Vatican officials are allowing buildings to be rented out at peppercorn rents as favours to powerful colleagues and turning a blind eye to shady property deals, as well as allowing addresses to be used as red-light establishments.
Among the properties mentioned in the document, made public by a Vatican mole, are premises in two streets close to the Italian Parliament and a solarium near Piazza Barberini, according to press reports.
One particular Vatican department, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, has been highlighted in the list. It owns hundreds of high-value properties in central Rome, worth hundreds of millions of euros.
Two years ago it emerged the Vatican had purchased a 23m (£16m) share of a Rome apartment block, 2 Via Carducci, which housed the Europa Multiclub, Europes biggest gay sauna. Tales of visiting priests were legion, and a section of the saunas website promoting special bear nights included a video of a hirsute man stripping down and changing into a priests outfit.
It is also claimed that Vatican officials are allowing buildings to be rented out at peppercorn rents as favours to powerful colleagues and turning a blind eye to shady property deals, as well as allowing addresses to be used as red-light establishments.
Among the properties mentioned in the document, made public by a Vatican mole, are premises in two streets close to the Italian Parliament and a solarium near Piazza Barberini, according to press reports.
One particular Vatican department, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, has been highlighted in the list. It owns hundreds of high-value properties in central Rome, worth hundreds of millions of euros.
Two years ago it emerged the Vatican had purchased a 23m (£16m) share of a Rome apartment block, 2 Via Carducci, which housed the Europa Multiclub, Europes biggest gay sauna. Tales of visiting priests were legion, and a section of the saunas website promoting special bear nights included a video of a hirsute man stripping down and changing into a priests outfit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatileaks-scandal-vatican-properties-used-as-brothels-and-massage-parlours-where-priests-pay-for-sex-a6729251.html
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Leaked report accuses priests of running brothels on Vatican-owned property (Original Post)
davidn3600
Nov 2015
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Totally not surprised. Religion is such a charade. n/t
ananda
(28,873 posts)2. Well, this looks like the modern version of ..
.. what would be a great porn film called
Renaissance Popes.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)3. So that's how you propagate the faith.