From tiome to time the news, well political news, just fliggping boring and then there comes something that I just cannot resist…..
First…I will start with a joke……”How do nuns have sex?”……pause for thought……”they dress up like alter boys”…….
I know…I know…it was disgusting, tasteless, insensitive….but you gotts admit …damn funny!
Why would I tell a tasteless joke? Well, it seems that with all the bad press that the Catholic Church has gotten in the past couple of years….you would think that they could get a handle on the sex scandals…huh?
Reuters is reporting:
One of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter’s Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.Ghinedu Ehiem, a Nigerian, was dismissed by the Vatican on Wednesday from the Giulia Choir after his name appeared in transcripts of police wiretaps, published by an Italian newspaper, in an unrelated Italian investigation.
Among four people arrested last month in the corruption probe was Angelo Balducci, a engineer who is a board member of Italy’s public works department and a construction consultant to the Vatican. Balducci was arrested on corruption charges and the allegatons of prostitution emerged only later.
Balducci is also a member of an elite group called “Gentlemen of His Holiness”, ushers who are called to serve in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on major occasions such as when the pope receives heads of state or presides at big events.
“Gentlemen of His Holiness””carried the coffin of the late Pope John Paul at his funeral in 2005.
A police document prepared for magistrates and published in part by La Repubblica said Balducci was in contact with Ehiem and an Italian who were part of what the police called “an organised network … to abet male prostitution”.
Apart from being a “Gentleman of His Holiness”, Balducci is listed in the Vatican’s directory as a consultant to a Vatican department that deals with missions and had close contacts with the Vatican during planning for events for the year 2000, when millions of pilgrims came to Rome for a special Holy Year.
Yeah…I bet it has “special”……
SIDE NOTE: It is official! The dinosaurs were killed by a meteor striking the earth…..okay..I missed something…I thought that was already settled….I guess I was mistaken….
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