Pope may have resigned over gay Vatican inquiry

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Kwabena Apuntuah 12 years ago

Sworn to protect the faith and the defender of the gospel. The Pope knows his obligations and limitations and will not do anything that will destroy the foundation of the faithful. Lets all pray for a smooth transition. Peace

Sworn to protect the faith and the defender of the gospel. The Pope knows his obligations and limitations and will not do anything that will destroy the foundation of the faithful. Lets all pray for a smooth transition. Peace
NAA DEDEI 12 years ago

filty people claiming to be men of God. GOD HELP US ALL

filty people claiming to be men of God. GOD HELP US ALL
DER-GBAALE 12 years ago

Do you know the number of Priests, Bishops, Cardnals in the Catholic Church? How many of these have been involved in committing adultery or homosexual acts? Even if one quarter of the mentioned clergymen above were involved, ...
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Do you know the number of Priests, Bishops, Cardnals in the Catholic Church? How many of these have been involved in committing adultery or homosexual acts? Even if one quarter of the mentioned clergymen above were involved, the whole world would have ended by now. But just like in every Institution there are exceptions, it is not unheard of that there would be deviants among the Catholic Clergy.
Asanteni 12 years ago

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Did A Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring bring down the Pope.

Of all the rumors floating around about just why Pope Benedict XVI is hanging up his camauro, one has taken on a life of its own. According t ...
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Did A Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring bring down the Pope.

Of all the rumors floating around about just why Pope Benedict XVI is hanging up his camauro, one has taken on a life of its own. 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. He reportedly closed the dossier and locked it away in the pontifical apartment safe to be handed to his successor to deal with. According to reports originally printed by La Repubblica newspaper and the newsweekly Panorama (and followed up across the gamut of the Italian media), the crimes the cardinals uncovered involved breaking the commandments “Thou shalt not steal” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” the latter of which has been used in Vatican-speak to also refer also to homosexual relations instead of the traditional reference to infidelity.

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The trio of cardinals who authored the report, known in the Italian press as the ‘007 Priests,’ were commissioned by Benedict to dig into the Vatileaks scandal that rocked the Holy See last fall when the pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was convicted of stealing secret papal documents and leaking them to the press. The sleuthing cardinals ran a parallel investigation to the Vatican tribunal’s criminal case against the butler, but theirs was far more covert and focused not on the mechanics of the leaks, but on who within the Roman Curia might be the brains behind them. And, according to the leaked reports, what the ‘007 Priests’ found went far beyond the pope’s private desk. “What’s coming out is very detailed X-ray of the Roman Curia that does not spare even the closest collaborators of the Pope,” wrote respected Vatican expert Ignazio Ingrao in Panorama. “The Pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships.”

The existence of a gay priest network outside the fortified walls of Vatican City is hardly news, and many are wondering if it is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of sex scandals. In 2010, investigative journalist Carmello Abbate went undercover with a hidden camera to write a shocking expose called “Good Nights Out for Gay Priests”.

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Abbate caught the priests on hidden camera dirty dancing at private parties and engaging in sex acts with male escorts on church property. He also caught them emerging from dark bedrooms just in time to celebrate mass. In one postcoital scene, a priest parades around seminaked, wearing only his clerical vestments. “This is not about homosexuality,” Abbate told The Daily Beast when he published the expose. “This is about private vices and public virtues. This is about serious hypocrisy in the Catholic Church.”

Because so much of the secret lives of gay priests is actually not so secret thanks to Abbate’s expose and subsequent book, Sex and the Vatican, many are wondering what else could be hidden in the alleged red-covered dossier. Vatican elite have also been loosely tied to a number of other secular scandals during Benedict’s tenure, including the ultra-tawdry affair between former governor of Lazio Piero Marrazzo and several transvestite prostitutes, including one named “Brenda” who was found burned to death in 2009. At the time that Marrazzo’s relationships with the transvestites were discovered, his driver reportedly told investigators that several high-ranking priests and even cardinals were customers of Rome’s elite transsexual circuit, though no proof was ever provided and no one has ever been arrested tied to the transsexual prostitution circuit . Nor has anyone mentioned whether reference to these crimes might also be in the dossier. But Marrazzo was whisked off to the Vatican-owned Monte Cassino abbey south of Rome to do his penance, and he even wrote a letter to Vatican Secretary of State Tarciso Bertone asking for Pope Benedict XVI’s forgiveness.

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Whatever secrets the red binders supposedly hold will have to remain just that until the next pope is elected. But Ingrao believes its contents are so important that the dossier will be like the 118th cardinal in the conclave. “Many new skeletons from the closets of the cardinals could come out until the beginning of the conclave,” says Ingrao. “Many voters know or claim to know the secrets of their brothers, but it is already clear that the new pope who leaves the Sistine Chapel will have to be scandal-free in order to proceed with cleaning up [what] Ratzinger has left for his successor.”
DER-GBAALE 12 years ago

Does your posting imply that ALL Priests, Bishops and Cardinals are all involved in deviant activites? Even if they all did, would that make it the teaching of Christ? You have just quoted unsubstantiated allegations and you ...
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Does your posting imply that ALL Priests, Bishops and Cardinals are all involved in deviant activites? Even if they all did, would that make it the teaching of Christ? You have just quoted unsubstantiated allegations and you have proven nothng. Huh.
For your Own Good 12 years ago

I think you should be very careful about your comments and your writings about the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church to avoid problems both physical and Spiritual. Do not take the matter of the Ancient of ages as you hav ...
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I think you should be very careful about your comments and your writings about the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church to avoid problems both physical and Spiritual. Do not take the matter of the Ancient of ages as you have been doing in Ghanaian Politics. The author of this article is highly cautioned. He started by saying the Pope Benedict XVI may have resigned because...Let me tell you. Catholic Church is not a baby Church.Before you write, you must know your facts. We do not use may be to write about the Catholic Church. Can you be judged right if you are summoned by the lawyers of the Pope to appear in the Court?Can you face the Vatican Court? Can you face the Spiritual powers of Christ in the Church?
Note, it is not always that you can just talk and go free. the madness of insults and defamation of character going on should never be extended to the Catholic Church. Do you know that the Roman Catholic security agents are everywhere? You are endangering your immortal soul. Note that anything written about the Church is read everywhere in the world. The Vatican Network is more than the network of the most advanced country in the world.You would be called to Rome to defend your writing. This writing can lead you to a serious trouble.
AFEVIA 12 years ago

LET US PRAY RELENTLESSLY FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD AND NOT ONLY FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

LET US PRAY RELENTLESSLY FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD AND NOT ONLY FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
esi 12 years ago

Leave the Catholic Church alone. He has voluntarily resign at his old age. Why are you also seeking faults of holy men.

Leave the Catholic Church alone. He has voluntarily resign at his old age. Why are you also seeking faults of holy men.
EZEKIEL 12 years ago

Who told you the Pope IS Holy ?? Popes ARE NOT holy but called so by their followers.
What is your definition of holiness anyway?

Who told you the Pope IS Holy ?? Popes ARE NOT holy but called so by their followers.
What is your definition of holiness anyway?
DER-GBAALE 12 years ago

For you the Pope is not holy? If the Pope is not holy, then how evil are you? Worse than Lucifer. Huh!

For you the Pope is not holy? If the Pope is not holy, then how evil are you? Worse than Lucifer. Huh!

Borketey 12 years ago

Read Mark 10:18. Even Jesus Christ refused to be called good and stated categorically that God is the only one that is good. How then do you justify anyone being called Holy ? (Mind you, holiness is higher than goodness) Just ...
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Read Mark 10:18. Even Jesus Christ refused to be called good and stated categorically that God is the only one that is good. How then do you justify anyone being called Holy ? (Mind you, holiness is higher than goodness) Just because someone is given a title HOLY by man doesn't make them holy and, for all you know, EZEKIEL might be on a higher standard of holiness than the Pope in God,s perception.
kwesi 12 years ago

Stupid people have nothing better to say only stupid things. They are like vultures waiting to hear something that does not concern them and jump on it. what has the pope resignation got to do within you vultures? keep on loo ...
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Stupid people have nothing better to say only stupid things. They are like vultures waiting to hear something that does not concern them and jump on it. what has the pope resignation got to do within you vultures? keep on looking for more and you will end up devouring yourselves if there is no more rubbish in you to let out.
Bill 12 years ago

Disgrace to christianity

Disgrace to christianity
Alhaji Tijani 12 years ago

Fake religion,1+1+1 equal to 1

Fake religion,1+1+1 equal to 1
Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 12 years ago

Long live Pope!Ma wakyerew'n na wakyerew,noway for gay homo in our belover motherland Ghana,the black world city nd the betters of our white nd the speaer of THE GREAT JESUS IN THE DOOR STEP OF GHANA? Amen! LONG Live Pope!!!. ...
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Long live Pope!Ma wakyerew'n na wakyerew,noway for gay homo in our belover motherland Ghana,the black world city nd the betters of our white nd the speaer of THE GREAT JESUS IN THE DOOR STEP OF GHANA? Amen! LONG Live Pope!!!.....
Ogyamanase yi speaking nd babye from now;God bless u....
Eko 12 years ago

The Vatican - an entire city filled with men wearing dresses, and covered in artwork of naked dudes. Why is everyone so surprised?

What disgusts me is that this man should have quit over the global paedophile scandal tha ...
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The Vatican - an entire city filled with men wearing dresses, and covered in artwork of naked dudes. Why is everyone so surprised?

What disgusts me is that this man should have quit over the global paedophile scandal that he directly and indirectly mismanaged; and if he was truly a man of moral being he would have done this years ago. Instead he is quitting over a few gay priests? Nice to see he has his moral priorities in order.
Yolande M. Agble 12 years ago

The resignation of Pope Benedict for whatever reasons, has put Ghana in the spotlight as the local Cardinal Turkson is being named in the western media as one of the top contenders to succeed him.But some of the same western ...
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The resignation of Pope Benedict for whatever reasons, has put Ghana in the spotlight as the local Cardinal Turkson is being named in the western media as one of the top contenders to succeed him.But some of the same western media have put a nail in the coffin of any such occurence. A Daily Telegrapgh headline has it that Turkson is not at all shy about his desire to become the first 'black' pope. I could have wished that the people advising Cardinal Turkson would have cautioned him against talking to the media, most especially that of the UK, and to a lesser extent the USA. They have not moved any from their belief that nothing good comes out of Africa and will not hesitate to misconstrue any comment to reinforce that view.To say anything which hints at politicking or projecting one's self is a big turn off for most of the conservative conclave of cardinals who constitute the voting block.
Cardinal Richelieu 12 years ago

"Meet Gorgeous Georg, the Holy Pontiff’s Live-In Partner"

http:/www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/11/meet-gorgeous-georg-the-holy-pontiffs-live-in-partner/

"Meet Gorgeous Georg, the Holy Pontiff’s Live-In Partner"

http:/www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/11/meet-gorgeous-georg-the-holy-pontiffs-live-in-partner/
odurobright 12 years ago

Yes pope benedicts is a gay

Yes pope benedicts is a gay
odurobright 12 years ago

pope Benedicts is a gay

pope Benedicts is a gay

BlackMan 12 years ago

To clean up the image & the mess of the RC church worldwide.
My single personal opinion is that when Cardinal Turkson is elected to be the next Pope, he should transform the entire Vatican & the Catholic Church to lift ...
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To clean up the image & the mess of the RC church worldwide.
My single personal opinion is that when Cardinal Turkson is elected to be the next Pope, he should transform the entire Vatican & the Catholic Church to lift the celibat ban by allowing the priests/fathers to marry as the Anglican Church does.
Only in Holland alone, 30 million euros is paid to compasate child-abuse claims of thousand of such victims.
To those forumers living in Holland, just go to: NOS teletext 108 on your TV sets to read this or try www.nos.nl/teletext to read the online version.
Cardinal Turkson has got a whole lot of hard work to do just like Obama doing also for the sake of humanity & respect for equal human race according to their Bible!!!
Didn't the Almighty God created us too as human beings: being a BlackMan?
BlackMan 12 years ago

.......insteat of: compasate.
Bad English due to multi-lingua,
Thanks for the correction.

.......insteat of: compasate.
Bad English due to multi-lingua,
Thanks for the correction.
peace 12 years ago

Turn to islam and you dont have earthly gods who toy with your faith, your salvation and your future heaven. You only have God the omnipotent, everlasting, unlike anything or anybody you have ever seen or heard of to be your ...
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Turn to islam and you dont have earthly gods who toy with your faith, your salvation and your future heaven. You only have God the omnipotent, everlasting, unlike anything or anybody you have ever seen or heard of to be your guide, protector and cherisher
Kwame vs.Kofi 12 years ago

have sex with little children and get married to 10 year old girls like some imams.
You could also become a suicide bomber or at least a sharia prosecuter who will then cut of peoples arms. If you turn to islam, you can also ...
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have sex with little children and get married to 10 year old girls like some imams.
You could also become a suicide bomber or at least a sharia prosecuter who will then cut of peoples arms. If you turn to islam, you can also beat your wife(s) and cover them in vails. You can also.....
peace 12 years ago

Yes you may be right, but you wont sleep with your own brothers, sisters and children. You wont promote gays and lesbians, you wont lean towards becoming bunch of transexuals.
You want stone the virgin for being raped (deute ...
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Yes you may be right, but you wont sleep with your own brothers, sisters and children. You wont promote gays and lesbians, you wont lean towards becoming bunch of transexuals.
You want stone the virgin for being raped (deuteronomy 22).
you wont be fooled by a bunch of selfish tricksters called pastors by taking all the money from the poor to live in luxury, with posh cars and private jets.
You want believe in a bible where in a king james version there is trinity- God the father .... and in a new testament , that is taken away as a fabrication. The only pivot your faith stands on.
Turn to Islam and live like a christian saint, live like Jesus want you to live and serve your creator.
Peace
Eko 12 years ago

Because they're fantasy stories that have copied each other over the years...it began with Zoroastrianism, which was copied by Judaism, which was copied by Christianity; both Judaism and Christianity were copied by Islam.

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Because they're fantasy stories that have copied each other over the years...it began with Zoroastrianism, which was copied by Judaism, which was copied by Christianity; both Judaism and Christianity were copied by Islam.

Starting a religion is easy when they're people gullible and wishful thinking enough to follow you - look at Ron L "The Easiest Way to Make Money is to start your own Religion" Hubbard and his church of Scientology . Or the Nation of Islam; started by a shameless white fraudster who just wanted to flog a few table cloths in Harlem to black customers.

If there is a God, he gave us all our own brains and all our own common sense. Pity some people don't use them and would rather behave like sheep.
peace 12 years ago

Eko, I see that things around you, like gay priests, priest child molestation is taking the air of religion out of you. You are absolutely right and there are millions of people in your category mostly in the developed countr ...
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Eko, I see that things around you, like gay priests, priest child molestation is taking the air of religion out of you. You are absolutely right and there are millions of people in your category mostly in the developed countries.
Well the question that should be asked is, why religion? Has it solved the problem of mankind or has it compounded it? Yes I read Hubbard´s book a long time ago and there are many in the west who proclaim this propaganda against religion, mainly the Abrahamaic faiths.
Religion in its basis seeks to reunite ppl with their creator. So the question now is, is there really a creator and would ppl wake up from the dead one day to know of their fate either to go to heaven or to hell? Read the Quran, God is trying so hard to prove that He really exists and there will be life after death, there will be judgment and there will be dwellers of hell and heaven forever. God sent this humble and devoted men of God, the prophets (not Ghanaian prophets) on many occassions to attest to these until He said Mohammed is the last one He is sending and leaving behind the Quran which should do the work of the prophets until the last day. The religions may look alike because they are from the same God, but some have been corrupted in the interest of some people and some are one step ahead of the others because they are fulfilment of the previous. Those that have been corrupted you can see the signs, are being used to make money from the poor. The western people are seeing the difference and turning to the uncorrupted for answers. My African folks should read. Read! Read! Read! in the name of your creator. Remember "Lack of knowledge, my people perish"
Prester John 12 years ago

As a muslim you have the right to commit genocide against black Libyans, and massacres against Shia in Iraq,Pakistan, and Bahrain. You will also genitally mutilate your women, forbid them to drive or leave the house without a ...
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As a muslim you have the right to commit genocide against black Libyans, and massacres against Shia in Iraq,Pakistan, and Bahrain. You will also genitally mutilate your women, forbid them to drive or leave the house without a male relative. Young girls will be forbidden from having an education in Pakistan or they must have a bullet put into their heads by a proper muslim man. Saudi Sheiks, the guardians of the sacred places of Islam, can go to London and have orgies with whores but have any man who will even look at woman suffer whipping, amputation or death. And if you are a pious muslim like Mohammed Atta, the 911 terrorist, you will hire a $500/hour prostitute to have sex before you blow the rest of us infidel Christians up! Whew what a peaceful, most righteous religion!
peace 12 years ago

Look back at all the wors evil, genocide , crimes against humanity and tell me who commits them? People who wrote your bible, go to church every sunday but when they needed something so much, religion was put at the corner an ...
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Look back at all the wors evil, genocide , crimes against humanity and tell me who commits them? People who wrote your bible, go to church every sunday but when they needed something so much, religion was put at the corner and they got it.

I mean Rwanda, first and second world wars( 50 million people destroyed), Liberia (chopping of hands), colonialism ( most of the apes resources taken), slavery ( most of the apes were taken, those who couldnt make it were thrown aboard. etc etc etc. read your history and find out who the perpetrators are? which religion they belong to and how often did they visit the statues, the images (idols) in the church before commiting , these heineous crimes.

You go and show your daki face in some churches around the world and you would be made to wait in the corridor because thats where you belong. You dont read, you just follow
7B 12 years ago

would he also resign in cult...

would he also resign in cult...

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