It would not surprise me, if this "Pizzagate" link runs a rat-line directly into Rome and into the heart of the Vatican?
Italian police raid a Vatican owned apartment, registered to
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who's main purpose is to
investigate sexual abuse by priests where a priest who serves a cardinal resides, who is a personal adviser to Pope Francis. The police reportedly found "drugs and several men having sex when they entered the apartment."
Police have raided a cardinal's apartment near the Vatican amid reports of a drug-fueled gay orgy. The incident comes as the Roman Catholic Church appears racked by conflict and scandal four years into Pope Francis's reign.
Italian Police Raid Drug-Fueled Gay Sex Orgy at Vatican Priest's Apartment
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201707051055248044-gay-sex-vatican-orgy/
Police entered an apartment where a priest lived. The priest reportedly serves as a secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative texts.
Cardinal Coccopalmerio is a personal adviser to Pope Francis.
An Italian newspaper said police raided the apartment in June after complaints from neighbors who reported unusual behavior.
The police reportedly found drugs and several men having sex when they entered the apartment. The priest was reported on suspicion of drug offenses.
Sex between men in private is not a criminal offense in Italy or in the Vatican City, which is a nominally independent state within the city of Rome.
The apartment reportedly belonged to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which investigates sexual abuse by priests.
Cardinal Coccopalmerio had reportedly recommended the priest for promotion to bishop but that has now been put on hold.
The incident is symptomatic of a difficult period for the Pope.
He remains under huge pressure as a result of sex abuse involving the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope's critics have reportedly blamed him for picking the wrong people for key positions.
In June, Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Catholic official in Australia, agreed to step down from his job as the Vatican's treasurer to return to Australia after being charged with multiple sexual offenses by Australian authorities.
Cardinal Pell, 76, has consistently denied all charges.
"I stand by everything I've said at the royal commission [on child sexual abuse] and in other places. We have to respect due process, wait until it's concluded and obviously I'll continue to cooperate fully," he told reporters. He is to appear in court on July 18.
For decades, the Catholic Church has been subject to accusations from numerous activists, organizations and victims for not doing enough to fight pedophilia within its ranks.
In July 2014, Pope Francis referred to child sexual abuse as a "leprosy" that infects the Catholic Church, stating that one in every 50 Catholic priests is a pedophile.
In 2015, Pope Francis approved the creation of a tribunal to hear cases in which bishops have been accused of failing to prevent the sexual abuse of children and "vulnerable adults" by priests.
Vatican police raided a drug-fueled gay sex party at the apartment of an aide to one of Pope Francis’ key advisers, according to an explosive new report.
Vatican cops bust drug-fueled gay orgy at cardinal’s apartment
http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/vatican-cops-bust-drug-fueled-gay-orgy-at-cardinals-apartment/
The Holy Father is “enraged,” since the home, inhabited by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio’s secretary, belongs to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith — the arm charged with tackling clerical sex abuse, Italian paper Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
Cops raided the apartment in late June after neighbors complained about multiple people visiting the apartment and acting strangely.
Inside, police said they found men getting high and getting it on, the paper reports.
They arrested the priest after taking him to a clinic to detox from the drugs he’d ingested — presumably on drugs charges, as gay sex isn’t illegal in Vatican City. He is now on a spiritual retreat in a convent in Italy, the paper reports.
Coccopalmerio had recommended his secretary for a promotion to bishop, but the prospects aren’t looking good following this incident
and two previous alleged drug overdoses, according to an International Business Times report.
Pope Francis may force the cardinal into retirement, the Italian paper reports.
The scandal comes just a week after the Vatican was rocked by sex abuse allegations against high-ranking Cardinal George Pell.
Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of historical sexual assault offenses, a stunning decision certain to rock the highest levels of the Holy See.
High-ranking Vatican cardinal charged with sex offenses
http://nypost.com/2017/06/28/high-ranking-vatican-cardinal-charged-with-sex-offenses-in-australia/
Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser and Australia’s most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal.
Victoria state Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said police have summonsed Pell to appear in an Australian court to face multiple charges of “historic sexual offenses,” meaning offenses that generally occurred some time ago. Patton said there are multiple complainants against Pell, but gave no other details on the allegations against the cardinal. Pell was ordered to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on July 18.
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For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney. His actions as archbishop came under intense scrutiny in recent years by a government-authorized investigation into how the Catholic Church and other institutions have responded to the sexual abuse of children. Australia’s years-long Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse — the nation’s highest form of inquiry — has found shocking levels of abuse in Australia’s Catholic Church, revealing earlier this year that 7 percent of Catholic priests were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades.
But more recently, Pell himself became the focus of a clergy sex abuse investigation.