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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:06 PM Mar 2013

Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests share €23m building with huge gay sauna

A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.

The senior Vatican figure sweating the most due to the unlikely proximity of the gay Europa Multiclub is probably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.

This 76-year-old “prince of the church” enjoys a 12-room apartment on the first-floor of the imposing palazzo, at 2 Via Carducci, just yards from the ground floor entrance to the steamy flesh pot. There are 18 other Vatican apartments in the block, many of which house priests.

The Holy See is still reeling from allegations that the previous pontiff, Benedict XVI, had quit in reaction to the presence of a gay cabal in the curia.

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Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests share €23m building with huge gay sauna (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2013 OP

The irony! hobbit709 Mar 2013 #1

They do sound pretty steamed about it n/t RZM Mar 2013 #2

Onion, Borrowitz? Nope NightWatcher Mar 2013 #3

I didn't know saunas could be gay Bay Boy Mar 2013 #4

Back in the day we had sweat lodges panader0 Mar 2013 #6

Gay sauna = bathhouse FreeState Mar 2013 #9

the vatican has been part owner of this building since 2008--and they expect us to believe they niyad Mar 2013 #5

Cardinal Ivan Dias lives in the same building as Europe's biggest gay sauna? Botany Mar 2013 #7

This is what happens when you live in a bubble most of your life. bulloney Mar 2013 #8

Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner! LongTomH Mar 2013 #12

Supposedly, the day after Bennie 1-6 found about this sauna, he decided to retire..... TheDebbieDee Mar 2013 #10

I don't think they will care. If they don't care that thousand of children were raped and molested Pisces Mar 2013 #11

Does the sauna give employee discounts? KamaAina Mar 2013 #13

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

1. The irony!

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:08 PM

Mar 2013

RZM

(8,556 posts)

2. They do sound pretty steamed about it n/t

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:09 PM

Mar 2013

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. Onion, Borrowitz? Nope

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:10 PM

Mar 2013

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)

4. I didn't know saunas could be gay

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:16 PM

Mar 2013

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

panader0

(25,816 posts)

6. Back in the day we had sweat lodges

Reply to Bay Boy (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:22 PM

Mar 2013

Heat the rocks in a fire, carry them into the sweat, and slowly pour water on them.
The temperature could get extreme. We hung in until the rocks finally cooled and then jumped in water, steaming.
Now I'm in the mood to make another.

FreeState

(10,577 posts)

9. Gay sauna = bathhouse

Reply to Bay Boy (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:47 PM

Mar 2013

this is a place were men meet up for sex usually.

niyad

(113,532 posts)

5. the vatican has been part owner of this building since 2008--and they expect us to believe they

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:19 PM

Mar 2013

had no idea about this gay sauna being a couple of doors down from the TWELVE ROOM apt of that one cardinal? realllly?

Botany

(70,567 posts)

7. Cardinal Ivan Dias lives in the same building as Europe's biggest gay sauna?

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:23 PM

Mar 2013

And he doesn't know about it?????

bulloney

(4,113 posts)

8. This is what happens when you live in a bubble most of your life.

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 06:35 PM

Mar 2013

You throw any excuse out there and you believe the masses will believe you.

This behavior is not limited to people in the RCC hierarchy. We're in such an elitist society, anybody with power, be it political or economic, will think the people will believe anything you say because you've conditioned yourself into believing anything you say has to be accepted by the people.

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)

12. Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner!

Reply to bulloney (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 02:26 PM

Mar 2013

Concentration of Wealth = Concentration of Power = Total and Complete Isolation for those on the top of the heap!

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)

10. Supposedly, the day after Bennie 1-6 found about this sauna, he decided to retire.....

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Mon Mar 11, 2013, 07:03 PM

Mar 2013

Also, the residents of the sauna frequently took pictures of their priestly visitors while dressed in drag and while having sex. The residents were black-mailing their customers.

How do you think many Catholics will feel when they find out that many of the dollars that have donated to the church for good works has been used as hush money to buy the silence of hustlers and child victims?

Pisces

(5,602 posts)

11. I don't think they will care. If they don't care that thousand of children were raped and molested

Reply to TheDebbieDee (Reply #10)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 07:23 PM

Mar 2013

what makes you think they will care if men engaged in consensual sex. The Catholic Church is doomed. I don't know what it
will take for millions of Catholics who go to church to become disgusted enough to do something about it. Stop giving these
pedophiles money, stop going to Church. March on the Vatican??

If stories of 200 deaf children being molested, or thousands of Irish children, or reports showing priest after pedophile
priest being moved around and most to 3rd world countries or areas of poor, powerless people. I don't know what it would
take. Maybe a video of a priest raping a child. People would not be able to turn away from the horror. I guess the stories can
be ignored.

I am an ex-Catholic. It is beyond comprehension that anyone can still follow this corrupt organization.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

13. Does the sauna give employee discounts?

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 02:33 PM

Mar 2013

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