From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste in images
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

If we are to go by Andrew Sullivan’s comment on Sunday’s The Chris Matthews Show that among Catholic cardinal voters are gays then automatically it means Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson may not stand a chance to be elected first black pope.

This is because of his recent comment that African priests are not homosexuals because African traditions and cultures do not allow homosexuality.

Cardinal Peter may not stand a better chance because most homosexuals need affirmation for their sexually-active ‘lifestyle’ and they need affirmation from everyone in order for them to keep their disordered life ‘normal’, a fact that Peter has denied them.

As if Sullivan’s comments are not enough, as Cardinals gather to select the next Pope, the Vatican has been found to have made a €23 million investment in an apartment block that contains “Europe’s biggest gay sauna,” Europa Multiclub according to reports in Rome and the UK Independent newspaper.

Even though the College of Cardinals must not have been pleased late Tuesday when reports circulated that the Vatican shared a block with Italy’s top gay sauna, the fact remains that it is indeed it shares the block.

The Holy See purchased a $30 million stake in the apartment block that houses the Europa Multiclub. It was also Benedict XVI’s former right hand, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone that picked the spot in 2008.

On the Vatican’s side are 18 apartments, most of which are occupied by priests, and the home of Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples.

On the Europa Multiclub side is fun palace “create by males for males only.” Italy’s hottest gay sauna has everything: a king turkish bath, a Finnish sauna, a waterfall whirlpool and “surprises,” to name a few amenities listed on its website.

It explains why it didn’t take long at all after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in late February before folks started speculating that his holiness was brought down by “a cross-dressing priest sex ring” that was detailed in a 300-page report given to Benedict on December 17, the day he reportedly decided to retire.

Reports also said that the priests implicated in the report were being blackmailed. The Vatican spokesman said at the time the report was released, “Neither the cardinals’ commission nor I will make comments to confirm or deny the things that are said about this matter.” He added that they would also not be commenting further on the report either.

Although much of what has eroded the church’s authority cannot be addressed due to its addiction to secrecy and rejection of transparency, public attention to the final chapter of Pope Benedict XVI’s reign dominated by talk of leaks and liaisons and wiretaps and dossiers has sent a signal that Roman Curia must be cleansed by all means.

The 76-year-old Cardinal Ivan Dias does not only enjoy 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, he is among the cardinals electing the new pope.

According to the report there are 18 other Vatican apartments in the block, many of which house priests-an embarrassment to the Roman Catholic Church indeed.

According to the sauna’s website which promotes one of its special “bear nights”, with a video in which a rotund, hairy man strips down before changing into a priest’s outfit, “a hairy, overweight pastor of souls, is free to the music of his clergyman, remaining in a thong, because he wants to expose body and soul”.

“The primary objective is to make you appreciate the beauty and satisfaction of meeting other men in a unique and special place,” the sauna’s website says.

Ivan Dias is not only one of the cardinals to elect the pope, in fact he is one of the major papal candidate from the Indian sub-continent. He is fluent in several languages and the fact that he comes from a third world nation would speak in his favor, though.

On May, 2011, the pope, Benedict XVI accepted his resignation as the Prefect, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, per Canon Law 354 which requires curial cardinals to resign upon reaching 75 — it being up to the pope as to when he accepts such retirements.

Cardinal Dias who had held this post since May 2006 just turned 75 on April 14, 2011. Typically it is not the norm for a retirement, especially of a curial head, to happen so quickly after the 75th birthday — most staying on till they are 77 or 78.

It was rumored that Cardinal Dias, who was created in February 2001, is experiencing health issues. He is the seventh cardinal to retire in 2011 per the 75 year Canon Law retirement age.

His retirement does not change the composition of the College since at 75 Cardinal Dias continues to be an elector. The number of cardinal electors has been reduced from 117 to 115, among them Cardinal Dias who believes that homosexuality can be cured of their “unnatural tendancies” through the Sacrement of Pennance.

Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have resigned, the first Papal resignation since 1415, after receiving the report of an investigation into events surrounding the leaking of documents by the Pope’s butler. The lengthy report is said to contain detailed evidence of factional infighting.

According to La Repubblica the cardinals were said to have uncovered an underground gay network, whose members organise sexual meetings in several venues in Rome and Vatican City, leaving them prone to blackmail.

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.”

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