From the inestimable Susie Madrak comes the headline Papal aide, Vatican men’s choir in gay prostitution ring:
Police wiretaps are expected to result in charges against Angelo Balducci, 63, a Papal Gentleman, as lay attendant are called, and the former chairman of the Holy See’s Public Works Department, which is itself caught up in a corruption investigation.
According to police, Balducci regularly contacted Chinedu Ehiem Thomas, a Nigerian man who sings in St. Peter’s Cappella Giulia, to engage the sexual services of young male members of the choir, along with seminarians and undocumented immigrants seeking residency status.
Here’s the original article from El Pais.
I have two things to say: (1) this sort of thing makes it really, really hard for popes to lecture us about sex. (2) It also tells you the international priest-pedophile scandal has destroyed the church’s assumption of respectability forever.
