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Benedict cracks down on ''loose living'' monks

  • 27-05-2011 10:24am
    #1
    SparkyTech
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    'Loose living' monks being evicted

    ROME, May 27 (UPI) -- A Vatican spokesman said about 20 concert-staging Cistercian monks are being evicted from an Italian monastery as part of a crackdown on "loose living."

    The Rev. Ciro Benedettini, a Vatican spokesman, said the monks at Rome's basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme are being transferred following reports they had run a hotel with a 24-hour limousine service and organized concerts featuring a former exotic dancer who became a nun, Britain's The Guardian reported Thursday.

    "An inquiry found evidence of liturgical and financial irregularities as well as lifestyles that were probably not in keeping with that of a monk," Benedettini said. "The church remains open but the monks are awaiting transfer."

    Benedettini said the move is part of Pope Benedict XVI's crackdown on "loose living" in the Catholic Church.

    The basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme houses some of the Catholic Church's holiest relics, including nails and wood splinters said to be from Jesus' cross and thorns from his crown.

    Monks have exotic dancers and limosene services? Thats a far cry from my last vist to the Vatican. Maybe we should all take holy communion more often :D


Comments

  • #2
    Guill
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    The boys at Buckfast Abbey are ****ed now!


  • #3
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    I hope another denomination breaks off where strippers and limos are the norm.

    I can tell you I'd attend mass every Sunday without fail.


  • #4
    prinz
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    AFAIK they were making private financial gains by fiddling the books.

    Also please note former exotic dancer before yez all get sweaty palms and dry lips.


  • #5
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I hope another denomination breaks off where strippers and limos are the norm.

    I can tell you I'd attend mass every Sunday without fail.

    I think attendances at mass would shoot up all over the place - there's possibly a metaphor there but I don't get it.


  • #6
    JBnaglfar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭JBnaglfar


    obligatory Father Ted reference

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI0YcgmOlKI


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  • #7
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,565 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    so Benny Ratz is ok having all his gold and priceless what nots in the Vatican and receiving 10's of million from governments in taxes and so forth, but a few lads having a good time is not on:confused:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter's_Pence


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