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Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests share 23m building with huge gay sauna
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: March 25th, 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/as-cardinals-...
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 Europes 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. 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. La Repubblica newspaper noted that the presence of Italys best known gay sauna in the premises is an embarrassment. There was further embarrassment for the Holy See when the press observed that thanks to generous tax breaks it received from the last Berlusconi government, the church will have avoided hefty payments to the Italian state. The properties are recognised as part of the Holy City. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Pope Emeritus Benedicts widely disliked right-hand man, ... was said to have been the brains behind the purchase of 2 Via Carduccio in 2008.
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