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Pope Benedict to step down on February 28

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Gay hypocrites in lacy dresses might be a factor in the resignation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/pope-retired-amid-gay-bishop-blackmail-inquiry
Papal resignation linked to inquiry into 'Vatican gay officials', says paper

A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders.

The pope's spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report, which was carried by the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica.

The paper said the pope had taken the decision on 17 December that he was going to resign – the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called "Vatileaks" affair.

Last May Pope Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and charged with having stolen and leaked papal correspondence that depicted the Vatican as a seething hotbed of intrigue and infighting.

According to La Repubblica, the dossier comprising "two volumes of almost 300 pages – bound in red" had been consigned to a safe in the papal apartments and would be delivered to the pope's successor upon his election.

The newspaper said the cardinals described a number of factions, including one whose members were "united by sexual orientation".

In an apparent quotation from the report, La Repubblica said some Vatican officials had been subject to "external influence" from laymen with whom they had links of a "worldly nature". The paper said this was a clear reference to blackmail.

It quoted a source "very close to those who wrote [the cardinal's report]" as saying: "Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments."

The seventh enjoins against theft. The sixth forbids adultery, but is linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts.

La Repubblica said the cardinals' report identified a series of meeting places in and around Rome. They included a villa outside the Italian capital, a sauna in a Rome suburb, a beauty parlour in the centre, and a former university residence that was in use by a provincial Italian archbishop.

Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said: "Neither the cardinals' commission nor I will make comments to confirm or deny the things that are said about this matter. Let each one assume his or her own responsibilities. We shall not be following up on the observations that are made about this."

He added that interpretations of the report were creating "a tension that is the opposite of what the pope and the church want" in the approach to the conclave of cardinals that will elect Benedict's successor. Another Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, alluded to the dossier soon after the pope announced his resignation on 11 February, describing its contents as "disturbing".

The three-man commission of inquiry into the Vatileaks affair was headed by a Spanish cardinal, Julián Herranz. He was assisted by Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, a former archbishop of Palermo, and the Slovak cardinal Jozef Tomko, who once headed the Vatican's department for missionaries.

Pope Benedict has said he will stand down at the end of this month; the first pope to resign voluntarily since Celestine V more than seven centuries ago. Since announcing his departure he has twice apparently referred to machinations inside the Vatican, saying that divisions "mar the face of the church", and warned against "the temptations of power".

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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Platypus said:
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**Fixed**
 
zinfamous said:
So next pope could be homo?

awesome!
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The current pope wears red prada shoes

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He has a hunk for a secretary:

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The dude's gay. I mean, come one!

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In the catholic church hierarchy the best case scenario is that a priest is a repressed homo who only occasionally has a discreet liaison with an adult.
 
There was an article on gawker a while ago about the gay cabal in the catholic church very interesting read. What it basically said is that you can't get ahead unless you are gay.
 
You guys know about the papal prophecy right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

The current pontiff whose abdication is pending, Pope Benedict XVI, would correspond to the pope described in the penultimate prophecy. The list ends with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly bring the destruction of the city of Rome and usher in the beginning of the Apocalypse.
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Sounds about right :awe:

Can't see the Catholic church surviving much longer after the new and last pope.

So we're on the last pope guys! Phew.

According to the Prophecy of the Popes, some hold that after Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his resignation 11 February 2013[1], there will be one pope left before the destruction of Rome.
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Time to get that shit up on history channel.
 
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OlafSicky said:
There was an article on gawker a while ago about the gay cabal in the catholic church very interesting read. What it basically said is that you can't get ahead unless you are gay.
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At this point I'd actually have more respect for the catholic church if it came out that much of the leadership is gay and likes a little rough trade in the confessional. Priests who are banging other priests don't molest children.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
At this point I'd actually have more respect for the catholic church if it came out that much of the leadership is gay and likes a little rough trade in the confessional. Priests who are banging other priests don't molest children.
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The problem is that since John Paul II, the church has been moving away from Vatican II and trying to keep its hierarchy "pure" and therefore separate from society with clerical celibacy. That's a whole lot of Canon Law.

It's too bad. I think there is a lot to love in the Catholic church and its history.

I live on the Mexican border. New immigrants and their citizen children tend to do 2 things.

1. Name their kids Johny and Kim.

2. Convert to some big box megachurch.

There's a cathedral, but the juice is on the side of the protestants. People don't like to be told not to use birth control. They're overly strict on marriage, but you can wear a condom, lol. There are also a lot of mormon missionaries riding their bikes around.
 
This place is hilarious ... its where the Internet cowards gather to attack anything they don't like, understand or agree with.

Amazing courage ...
 
dud said:
This place is hilarious ... its where the Internet cowards gather to attack anything they don't like, understand or agree with.

Amazing courage ...
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What does courage have to do with anything? The internet is where all that's ridiculous gets ridiculed. It doesn't have a single thing to do with courage.
 
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