Vatican Gay Sauna in Rome Apartment Block Exposed
According to the recent report, the Vatican had purchased a €23 million share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.
The Holy See is still reeling from allegations that the previous Pope, Benedict XVI, had quit in reaction to the presence of a gay cabal in the curia.
La Repubblica newspaper wrote that the presence of “Italy’s best known gay sauna in the premises is an embarrassment”.
La Repubblica’s report was the latest in a string of claims that a gay network exists in the Vatican. In 2007 a senior official was suspended from the congregation, or department, for the priesthood, after he was filmed in a “sting” organised by an Italian television programme while apparently making sexual overtures to a younger man.
In 2010 a chorister was dismissed for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. A few months later a weekly news magazine used hidden cameras to record priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex.
The Vatican does not condemn homosexuals. But it teaches that gay sex is “intrinsically disordered”. Pope Benedict has barred sexually active gay men from studying for the priesthood.
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