Vatican properties are operating as BROTHELS and massage parlours for priests, claims latest Vatileaks report
- Seedy premises are 'close to the Italian parliament and Piazza Barberini'
- Vatican department which owns hundreds of properties is singled out in leaked document
- Officials 'rented out buildings cheap as favours for powerful colleagues'
- "....Having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication." Revelation 17:4b
Vatican-owned
properties are being used by priests as brothels and massage parlours,
according to the latest claims to emerge from the Vatileaks scandal.
The
properties implicated in a report, leaked by a Vatican mole, include
premises close to the Italian Parliament and a solarium near Piazza
Barberini.
A
Vatican department, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith,
owns hundreds of exclusive properties in central Rome, was also singled
out in the document.
It
claimed that Vatican officials were allowing buildings to be leased out
at peppercorn rents as favours to powerful colleagues.
Vatican-owned properties are being
used by priests as brothels and massage parlours, according to the
latest claims to emerge from the Vatileaks scandal
The
document also alleged that they would allow dodgy property deals that
would see addresses being used as brothels and illicit saunas, it was
reported by The Independent.
The
claims come two years after the Church was embarrassed by revelations
that several priests shared an apartment block with Europe's largest
homosexual sauna.
It was
reported that the Holy See owned 19 apartments in the block in Rome
after buying a £21million share of the building in 2008.
Several
of the flats house priests, notably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the so-called
'prince of the church' whose 12-room apartment at 2 Via Carducci is
located just yards from the Europa Multiclub.
The facility, billed as 'Italy's best-known gay sauna', boasts a Turkish bath, Finnish sauna, whirlpools and massages.
Under pressure: The latest Vatileaks
claims emerged as Pope Francis insisted the Church shun all temptations
of power, prestige and money as he pressed his reform agenda amid the
new scandal
Its
website ironically touts one of its 'bear nights' with a video of a
hairy man stripping down and changing into a priest's outfit.
It says Bruno is 'free to the music of his clergyman, remaining in a thong, because he wants to expose body and soul'.
The
purchase was apparently the brainchild of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone,
Pope Benedict's much-disliked right-hand man who held the Vatican's
purse strings during the last pontificate.
The
latest Vatileaks claims emerged as Pope Francis insisted the Church
shun all temptations of power, prestige and money as he pressed his
reform agenda amid a new scandal at the Vatican.
Francis
outlined his vision of the church in a lengthy speech to Italian
bishops gathered in Florence, leaving behind a Vatican reeling from
revelations of internal resistance to his reform agenda.
The
Argentine Jesuit told the bishops he wanted a church that was humble
and poor and not obsessed with preaching doctrine or acquiring power.
The claims come two years after the
Church was embarrassed by revelations that several priests shared an
apartment block (above) with Europe's largest homosexual sauna
His
visit comes after two new books laid bare the Pope's uphill battle to
reform the Italian-dominated Vatican bureaucracy and get a handle on its
finances.
Citing
leaked confidential documents, the books exposed the greed of cardinals
and monsignors, mismanagement of Vatican assets and the resistance to
change from the Holy See's old guard.
A high-ranking Vatican monsignor and a laywoman have been arrested in the probe into the leaked documents.
Francis has denounced the leaks as a crime but vowed to press ahead with his reform agenda.
Francis
began his day-long visit to Tuscany with a stop in the industrial city
of Prato, where a 2013 garment factory fire killed seven Chinese
workers.
In
off-the-cuff comments to Prato residents gathered in the piazza outside
the city's cathedral, Francis decried the 'inhuman' conditions the
illegal workers were forced to endure.
'The
life of every community requires that we fight the cancer of
corruption, the cancer of human and labor exploitation and the poison of
illegality,' he said to applause from the crowd.
The
Argentine Jesuit pope has frequently spoken out about the scourge of
human trafficking and the need for dignified work for all.
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