Top Catholic publishers found selling porn novels

the culture of deference · 05-11-2011 4:13pm #1

WoW the catholic church are not content with all their current scandals around the world, or shooting themselves in the foot everytime one of their leaders opens their mouth.

Now they print porn mags.

What religion needs to own a publishers with a turnover of 1.7 billion a year.

What else do these crazy loons own?

Germany's biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels with titles such as 'Sluts' Boarding School' and 'Lawyer's Whore' with the full assent of the country's leading bishops.

Weltbild, a company with an annual €1.7bn turnover and 6,400 employees.

It is Germany's 2nd largest bookseller and wholly owned by the Catholic Church.

The publisher's website also pictures the titles' lascivious dust jackets that feature colour photographs of scantily clad women in high heels and erotic underwear.

Catholic bishops responded with a statement claiming that "a filtering system failure" had allowed the books to stray on to the market.

the pornography scandal at Weltbild had been going on for at least a decade with the church's full knowledge.

Mr Muller said that in 2008, a group of Catholics had sent bishops a 70-page document containing irrefutable evidence that Weltbild published books that promoted pornography, Satanism and magic.

Believers have been complaining to their bishops about this for years.

It emerged yesterday that in an attempt to clear itself, the Catholic Church tried to sell Weltbild in 2009.

But the bishops apparently abandoned the idea after they failed to get the price they were asking.

Dudess · 05-11-2011 4:18pm

Heeheehee, Sluts Boarding School

In fairness though, the bible's pretty porny.

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:27pm

Dudess wrote: »

Heeheehee, Sluts Boarding School

In fairness though, the bible's pretty porny.

You should be ok if you stay away from the Old Testament, far too many shennanigans there.

Yahew · 05-11-2011 4:33pm

More rabble rabble rabble papists rabble rabble rabble papists stuff.

If these publications aren't illegal then there is no issue for anybody but the Church and it's members. Its an internal issue.

Dudess · 05-11-2011 4:37pm

Yahew wrote: »

More rabble rabble rabble papists rabble rabble rabble papists stuff.

If these publications aren't illegal then there is no issue for anybody but the Church and it's members. Its an internal issue.

But legality aside, surely it's questionable given the church's stance on pre-marital sex?

ejmaztec · 05-11-2011 4:38pm

I wonder what kind of read you would get if you ordered a book about the Virgin Mary?

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:40pm

Dudess wrote: »

But legality aside, surely it's questionable given the church's stance on pre-marital sex?

Its hardly a debate the church could or should get involved in.
Its got PR disaster written all over it.

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:42pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

I wonder what kind of read you would get if you ordered a book about the Virgin Mary?

A nativity play.

LeixlipRed · 05-11-2011 4:42pm

Yahew wrote: »

More rabble rabble rabble papists rabble rabble rabble papists stuff.

If these publications aren't illegal then there is no issue for anybody but the Church and it's members. Its an internal issue.

It's more about pointing out the hypocrisy of the church. Once again. No one is suggesting they shouldn't be able to sell dirty novels. I wonder do the people in these novels use contraception? :pac:

ejmaztec · 05-11-2011 4:43pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

A nativity play.

With loads of pictures I hope.

LeixlipRed · 05-11-2011 4:43pm

Dudess wrote: »

But legality aside, surely it's questionable given the church's stance on pre-marital sex?

Ah now, you haven't read these novels. I'm sure the slutty school girls all get married before the naughtiness occurs. Married to each other that is

Or should I say I hope

Latchy · 05-11-2011 4:43pm

Dudess wrote: »

Heeheehee, Sluts Boarding School

In fairness though, the bible's pretty porny.

padd b1975 wrote: »

You should be ok if you stay away from the Old Testament, far too many shennanigans there.

Starting straight off at the beginning in the Garden Of Eden to .

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:44pm

LeixlipRed wrote: »

It's more about pointing out the hypocrisy of the church. Once again. No one is suggesting they shouldn't be able to sell dirty novels. I wonder do the people in these novels use contraception? :pac:

Only one way to find out for sure.
Order a selection and have a read of them.

Ghandee · 05-11-2011 4:46pm

Porn/sex sells, and it sells well.

The catholic church represents a huge business model.

So to sum it up, huge Business makes more money.

Meh.

Good living for a living!

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:47pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

With loads of pictures I hope.

There is bound to be a local production near you over the next couple of months. Why not catch the live show? If thats your thing.....

megaten · 05-11-2011 4:47pm

Delighted

the culture of deference · 05-11-2011 4:52pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

I wonder what kind of read you would get if you ordered a book about the Virgin Mary?

Here she comes, the virgin mary. Always a good pious little girl our virgin mary, she prays hard does our virgin mary.

Then, one night the virgin mary meets 12 guys at supper and they get her locked on vodka red bulls, and the very next day poor mary does the walk of shame.

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 4:53pm

megaten wrote: »

Delighted

Not enough porn on the internet for you??

Bannasidhe · 05-11-2011 4:56pm

Ghandee wrote: »

Porn/sex sells, and it sells well.

The catholic church represents a huge business model.

So to sum it up, huge Business makes more money.

Meh.

Good living for a living!

Plus they needed a new revenue stream when the Sale of Indulgences Bubble burst

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Logical Fallacy · 05-11-2011 4:58pm

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Ah now, you haven't read these novels. I'm sure the slutty school girls all get married before the naughtiness occurs. Married to each other that is Or should I say I hope

They are actually cautionary tales.

The Sluts all put out and die and burn in hell forever.

Snakeblood · 05-11-2011 5:00pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

They are actually cautionary tales.

The Sluts all put out and die and burn in hell forever.

I'll just read the first half so.

the culture of deference · 05-11-2011 5:02pm

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Plus they needed a new revenue stream when the Sale of Indulgences Bubble burst .

how could anyone be so stupid as to believe that heaven/hell/purgatory had monetary values.

actually if you were dumb enough to believe the rest of the sh1t they peedled........

celticcrash · 05-11-2011 5:04pm

Theres a book out called, The dark side of the Papacy. Vlad the impaler is nothing along side these guys.

LeixlipRed · 05-11-2011 5:04pm

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

They are actually cautionary tales.

The Sluts all put out and die and burn in hell forever.

Parading themselves naked in hell forever? Sounds crispy.

padd b1975 · 05-11-2011 5:09pm

the culture of deference wrote: »

how could anyone be so stupid as to believe that heaven/hell/purgatory had monetary values.

actually if you were dumb enough to believe the rest of the sh1t they peedled........

The real question is can they spell??

yutta · 05-11-2011 5:11pm

The Vatican have such a huge amount of assets that it's very hard for them to keep track of everything. If they were to micro-manage every single investment, they'd have no time for the real business of preaching the Gospel.

FetchTheGin · 05-11-2011 5:12pm

The Sluts all put out and die and burn in hell forever.

After they have fulfilled their financial uses, ie getting rogered senseless at sluts boarding school.

Ellis Dee · 05-11-2011 5:18pm

yutta wrote: »

The Vatican have such a huge amount of assets that it's very hard for them to keep track of everything. If they were to micro-manage every single investment, they'd have no time for the real business of preaching the Gospel.

And what a lucrative business it it!:D:D But so is porn, and as someone once said. "Moses is Moses, but business is business.";););)

JBnaglfar · 05-11-2011 6:02pm

Yahew wrote: »

More rabble rabble rabble papists rabble rabble rabble papists stuff.

If these publications aren't illegal then there is no issue for anybody but the Church and it's members. Its an internal issue.

I'm not so sure its that simple, more a highlight of the contradictory stances that seem to arise in that church. From wikipedia:

Many are opposed to pornography because of religious convictions and morals, as exemplified by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states:
"Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials."

Practice what you preach? :pac:

vampire of kilmainham · 05-11-2011 7:59pm

Dudess wrote: »

Heeheehee, Sluts Boarding School

In fairness though, the bible's pretty porny.

that would be an ecumenical mattterrrr

vampire of kilmainham · 05-11-2011 8:03pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

I wonder what kind of read you would get if you ordered a book about the Virgin Mary?

that would be interesting too know but nothing would suprise me with anything to do with the catholis church

Top Catholic publishers found selling porn novels

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