Oops, Wrong Door Again!

[Guest thaiworthy]

Just when you thought things were getting hot and steamy in Brazil, here comes news that as Cardinals gather to elect a new Pope, Catholic officials find priests sharing a building with a big gay sauna. The Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.
 

Readers on Italian gay websites were quick to make jokes at the cardinals’ expense. One on the Gay.it site quipped: “’Oops, I took the wrong door, I thought it was the chapel.'…If you can’t go to the gay sauna for fear of being seen what do you do if you have millions of Euros stolen from Italians? You buy the apartment block with the sauna inside.”

 
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, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.

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.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/as-cardinals-gather-to-elect-pope-catholic-officials-break-into-a-sweat-over-news-that-priests-share-23m-building-with-huge-gay-sauna-8529670.html

 

Well, at least it's convenient and easily anonymous. They can go grab a quickie on the way to Midnight Mass.

 

[Guest fountainhall]

Now, why on earth would any cardinal living on his own (well, apart from a house-keeper - or might it be a house-boy?) require a 12-room apartment?

 

"Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." Luke 12:15 

[KhorTose]

Now, why on earth would any cardinal living on his own (well, apart from a house-keeper - or might it be a house-boy?) require a 12-room apartment?

I am sure it is because he is a very messy man and requires 11 houseboys to take care of--errr---his apartment of course.

[Guest fountainhall]

Wow! He's 76! He must pop something in the communion chalice to keep his stamina up    Sacramental viagra?

[Guest thaiworthy]

And what about Sacramental Hosts? Does that mean the altar is an after-hours host bar?

[Guest]

Now, why on earth would any cardinal living on his own (well, apart from a house-keeper - or might it be a house-boy?) require a 12-room apartment?

The leaders of the church seem to live in quite some style. Donations to the church need to be spent somehow remember.

[Rogie]

I was intrigued by the term 'Prince of the Church', thinking someone so-called was exceptional, but it appears to be quite common-or-garden:

 

Every Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church is still called a Prince of the Church because their College of Cardinals elects a new pope (de facto from their number) during a period sede vacante in a special session called a conclave, where an age-limit applies. The Cardinals thus are an ecclesiastical equivalent to the Prince-electors of the former Holy Roman Empire, the other major elective monarchy in history.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_the_Church

[kokopelli]

Now, why on earth would any cardinal living on his own (well, apart from a house-keeper - or might it be a house-boy?) require a 12-room apartment?

 

"Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." Luke 12:15 

Question is why would some old lady and her equally old husband need 775 rooms and 188 staff? Guess it goes with the turf.