Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI weighs in on the clergy abuse crisis
Apr 13, 2019 11:49:35 GMT
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Post by Eλευθερί on Apr 13, 2019 11:49:35 GMT
Benedict apparently thinks enough time has passed that everyone has forgotten why he was forced to abdicate the papacy. (And certainly there's no trace of this mentioned in his current Wikipedia bio.)
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.”
Revelations about the alleged network are the basis of a 300-page report supposedly delivered to Benedict on December 17 by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Joseph Tomko, and Salvatore De Giorgi. According to the press reports, it was on that day that Benedict XVI decided once and for all to retire, after toying with the idea for months....
Revelations about the alleged network are the basis of a 300-page report supposedly delivered to Benedict on December 17 by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Joseph Tomko, and Salvatore De Giorgi. According to the press reports, it was on that day that Benedict XVI decided once and for all to retire, after toying with the idea for months....
The report was the result of a Vatican investigation to try to stop whoever was leaking nasty info about all sorts of Vatican misbehavior to the press (the so-called Vatileaks scandal). Benedict's personal butler was fingered and convicted (later pardoned), but he was just guilty of exposing the secrets. Benedict himself ultimately was the one presiding over all the scandalous activity of his officials. (And who knows what dirt they may have had on Benedict that was never revealed to the public?)