CATHOLIC CHURCH MAKES A FORTUNE IN THE GERMAN PORN BUSINESS

Source: WorldCrunch

CATHOLIC CHURCH MAKES A FORTUNE IN THE GERMAN PORN BUSINESS
Weltbild, one of Germany’s largest publishing companies, happens to be owned and operated by the Catholic Church. But that has not stopped it from publishing books that many of the faithful find offensive.

"Weltbild," Germany’s largest media company, sells books, DVDs, music and more -- and also happens to belong 100% to the Catholic Church. Few people knew about this connection until this month when Buchreport, a German industry newsletter, reported that the Catholic company also sells porn.
A Church spokesman responded: “Weltbild tries to prevent the distribution of possibly pornographic content.”

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The 2,500 erotic books in their online catalogue, including those from Blue Panther Books, an erotic book publisher owned by Weltbild, are only one example. Their titles include: “Anwaltshure” (Lawyer’s Whore), “Vögelbar” (F—kable) and “Schlampen-Internat” (Sluts’ Boarding School).

The Church also owns a 50% share in publishing company Droemer Knaur which produces pornographic books, and so indirectly is also a publisher of pornographic material, titles including “Nimm mich hier und nimm mich jetzt!” (Take Me Here, Take Me Now!), and “Sag Luder zu mir!” (Call Me Slut!).

Read more: http://worldcrunch.com/node/3995

They're not the full owners though.
Only 50%, so it's okay.

:rofl:

"I'm shocked! Shocked to find there's porn going on here."
"Your profits sir."
"Thank you very much."

(Apology to Casablanca)

Why am I shocked?

:dilemma:

You know, the faithful posters who always wade into ANY thread about Catholic shenanigans, trying desperately to minimize the story or change the subject. Hopefully to a commercial message about the "history and majesty of the Church," etc. etc.

Meanwhile, I found a photo of the Senior Editor at Weltbild:

:shrug:

warns us

... Denn er bietet auch nahezu alle kirchenfeindlichen Schriften wie die Bücher des Gottleugners Richard Dawkins an ...
Drucken Bewerten Autor: Bernhard Müller| 25.10.2011
Katholische Kirche macht mit Pornos ein Vermögen
http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article13679586/Katholische-Kirche-macht-mit-Pornos-ein-Vermoegen.html

Ya read that right: Die Welt is saying the German Catholic dioceses are a major distributor of Richard Dawkins anti-religious stuff. Eh-yup! in Die Welt's world, sneaky shadowy Catholics are spreading porn and atheism across Europe

:eyes:

Die Suche nach Anwaltshure hat keine Treffer ergeben.
Die Suche nach Vögelbar hat keine Treffer ergeben.
Die Suche nach Schlampen-Internat hat keine Treffer ergeben.

Didn't find anything there by Blue Panther Books either

Domain info suggests Blue Panther Books is located in Hamburg, and hosted by IP provider Beasts Associated. At least one of my domain queries seemed to turn up a server hosting only Blue Panther Books. Site traffic may vary from a dozen to several hundred hits daily