Saturday, March 06, 2010

The Company you Creep

Quite the pair of news items:

The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were involved in a homosexual prostitution ring...

The tapes appear to record Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Nigerian Vatican chorister, about men he wanted brought to him for sexual purposes. Balducci was allegedly paying 2,000 euros ($2,714) for each man he met, according to the Irish Times.

Balducci is recorded describing precise physical details of the men he wanted. The transcripts record that during five months in 2008, Ehiem procured for Balducci at least 10 contacts with, among others, "two black Cuban lads," a former male model from Naples, and a rugby player from Rome.


...and maybe one other kind of "service provider"

Abortion and the Catholic Church: Randall Terry Leads Delegation to Vatican from March 17-24

Participants will ask Vatican Officials: "Do Vatican Officials stand by the words of Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) to American bishops in 2004?"



Apparently, somebody wanted an escort that's a real asshole.

2 comments:

I fought the lawn. And the lawn won. said...

If a well-known atheist like Sam Harris, PZ Meyers or Richard Dawkins did the same thing, there'd be a worldwide scandal.

But if a top Republican or a top Catholic does it, nobody gives a shit.

pansypoo said...

what happens in the vatican, stays in the vatican.