Did a Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring Bring Down Benedict XVI?
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Did a
Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring Bring Down Benedict XVI?
By
Barbie Latza
Nadeau
| The Daily
Beast
Did a
Cross-Dressing Priest Sex …
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 to homosexual relations instead of the
traditional reference to infidelity.
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 exposé called “Good Nights Out for Gay
Priests”.
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
exposé. “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 exposé 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 Lazio governor 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.
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.”
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