Just weeks after the Vatican’s not-so-secret gay hookup site was revealed, a 46-year-old former priest is claiming that garbage is just for chumps. The real deal, according to him, is the secret male prostitution ring currently putting out for nine senior officials of the Holy Roman Church.
Don Patrizio Poggi, who spent five years in prison on charges of pedophilia, says a former Carabinieri was responsible for scouting the boys outside a Roman gay bar called Twink. Aided by “a friend who ran a modeling agency,” the officer found Eastern European boys that were “starving and desperate” and duped them into fake “acting” and “modeling” gigs.
Once abducted, the boys were paid €150-€500 (~$200-$650) to perform sex acts on male priests in Holy sites across the capital. Though it hasn’t been released, Poggi also claims he has photo and video proof to provide as evidence (which we’re hoping is not just a link to Bel Ami’s porn site).
As expected, the claims have been rejected by the Vatican, which believes Poggi’s allegations are purely vengeful.
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“The cardinal expresses his full confidence in the magistracy and declares himself full convinced that this slander will be demolished, demonstrating Poggi’s claims to be untrue,” said Vatican Cardinal Agostino Vallini. “God will hold everyone accountable for their deeds.”
BRB, getting ready for Twink tonight.
Jackhoffsky
From the article:
“The boys were chosen because they were starving and desperate, he claimed, according to Il Messaggero newspaper.”
Who says the church has lost its edge in being a power hungry monster?
WhyteRabbit
@Jackhoffsky: no no, you misunderstand… this is just their outreach program. they provide food, employment, and beds for the poor and destitute. 🙂 it’s the good, christian thing to do.
1EqualityUSA
check out the statue on the outside property, the one lad holding a bunch of fruit. There’s the head of a penis poking out of the fruit basket.
Jackhoffsky
@WhyteRabbit: I’m sure that was also what they were claiming when they first landed on the shores of Latin America…. LOL.
Jerry12
Who is the cute guy with the blinders on?
Anthony
…are they hiring?
Kkilee
I wonder what Jake Genesis have say about this ?
Chris
This stuff has been going on behind the scenes for centuries guys. Wake up and smell the incense! Just like the new revelations about sexual assaults in the military…53
Chris
This stuff has been going on for centuries guys… wake up and smell the incense! Just like the U.S. military has hushed the thousands and thousands of sexual assaults each year with 53 percent of them against males…Only thing is now its all coming out in the open. As it should. At least the priests are looking out for the underdog. If I were homeless, hungry and young and attractive, and living on the streets of Rome… having a Vatican sugar daddy couldn’t be so bad!
iMort
That is the joy of being a gay homeless teen in any major city with a gay populace. You don’t even have to be attractive to find a daddy of course it helps a lot if you are good looking. But really just be young and have a penis don’t forget to develop your oral skills not everyone is into that back door booty.
iMort
I think non acceptance of homosexuality drives many to the priest hood. God is not real and the man they call Jesus was just that A MAN. And he was also a Jew. Not a Gentile. To understand religion in its proper context is to realize that it is a superstition just like voodoo or throwing a pinch of salt over your shoulder for luck.
Kangol
The Vatican and its officials can have all the gay sex they want, but I just wish they would stop ranting against gay people and fomenting homophobia and heterosexism, because the effects have been devastating to gay people all over the world for centuries.
The Inquisition might not burn gays at the stake or torture them to death, but many a gay Catholic person and non-Catholic person has had to suffer the effects of the Catholic Church’s anti-gay rhetoric. Just look at how the Church (along with the Mormon Church, the Family Research Council and others) promoted Proposition 8 in California, denying same-sex couples marriage rights for years. The current pope continues in this vein.
These Vatican officials and the Catholic Church leaders in general should all get psychological help for their issues, focus on what Jesus Christ really talked about (he never once mentions homosexuality or abortion, BTW, but he does repeatedly talk about helping the poor and downtrodden, the sick, prisoners, etc.), and just stop harassing and oppressing gays, especially when so many of them are gay themselves.
Kangol
I should add that I absolutely do not support the exploitation of adolescent boys or children, which the Catholic Church has aided and abetted for far too long, even as it viciously attacks gay people. The boys this article mentions should not be exploited, and the scenario described represents yet another area where the Vatican and Catholic Church need to clean up their acts, immediately, and be prosecuted if they’ve committed any crimes.
scoobydube
@Kangol: It is the very FACT that these ‘priests’ were, are, and will be in the closet for the foreseeable future, that this is going on. Being gay AND repressing those feelings drives men into the priesthood. Once there they ‘let loose’ and enjoy themselves without abandon. If all of a sudden the Vatican ‘came out’ in support of gays/lesbians, OHHHH the money they would loose. Being a Catholic I can see the HYPOCRISY every day. It boils down to “don’t do as I do, do only as I say” ……
crowebobby
At least they’re paying way above the going rate in Berlin. That has to count for something.
dvlaries
@Kkilee: If Genesis really quit, he’s left a lot in the pipeline, because I’m still seeing new stuff of his coming out.
jwrappaport
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
jwrappaport
@Chris: “Looking out for the underdog.” Can you be morally serious for even a second? I hope you were kidding. I really do. This isn’t about helping anyone, it’s about exploiting people when they are at their weakest. I consider few things more despicable than extorting sex from society’s most vulnerable, the poor. What makes it even more disgusting is that these priests minister in the name of a man characterized by his mercy, compassion, and selfless care of the poor.
It’s a pity there isn’t a hell for these Chaucerian frauds to burn in.
MudgeBoy
When I was in high school I was completely infatuated with a cute guy on the football team. He decided to join a catholic religious order, The Christian Brothers, and I decided to go with him. After being in the order a few years I discovered that half of us were gay, but unfortunately he wasn’t. I left the order. But before I did, I had a lot of great sex, including a super sweet boy friend. I agree with all who have posted here that the catholic church is composed of many repressed hypocrites who do so much harm to gays all over the world, and pedophilia is at the top of the list. It would be terrific if a guy like Mike Rogers would expose all of the hypocritical bishops and cardinals who denounce homosexuality; of course, the church is so powerful that someone who exposes them might suddenly disappear…
GayTampaCowboy
I’m thinking that very soon the RCC is going to have their own “Wiki-leaks” or “Snowden” issue to deal with.
Given it’s history, combined with social media and technology, and finally given the RCC’s overt statements and actions against gay rights, their hypocrisy might soon have to be addressed!
Imagine if this report is correct and the former priest DOES release images and videos of high-ranking church officials both RECRUITING and ENGAGING in human trafficking?
I don’t think there’s ANY amount of money that will silence an ousted priest!
Watch your news feeds folks!
krandall
I can’t wonder a) how long Poggi has known about these abductions going on in front of his bar, and 2) why he has never tried to intervene.
It’s just the journalist in me.
Hairspray_Harry
i’m quite happy the media, even the gay media are doing their best,mind you.. to convince society and gay society that homosexual men are really closet “paedophiles” and parents would do good to lock up their little boys and male teens around any homosexual male within a 2km ratio……its frightening when these days as society reports more and more so-called luke warm stories of men raping teen boys or children and associating them with queers yet the media is reporting less and less of men raping underage girls,i’ve had family members assume the worst from the news and stopped talking to me because they assume “gay” is another word for “paedophile”
Hairspray_Harry
why is it, we never hear of “the underground” “paedophilia marriages” in the central eastern countries,men as old as 50 years marrying 9 year old little girls…i would assume its because its “heterosexual sex”,if this was little boys and older men we basically would not here the end of it,they would even create jokes from it…..marriage as a cloak for perverts to molest little girls legally !!!!!
Hairspray_Harry
i’m really starting to wonder if this is really a pro-gay site or a American repulican site
in passing..queerty really does not make the struggle of being gay any sweeter and really needs to question what side their so-called reporters are on !!!!! more or less a wolf in sheeps clothes
Bisexual-Transwoman
I’m not surprised by this at all. Nobody should be.
Realitycheck
When i lived in Italy this was a well known fact, young men were often brought in at night to entertain the clergy, not to mention the young and good looking swiss guards LOL
Anyone that is not blind can se that most priests and monks are the most femminine and repulsive gay men out there.
takingliberties
Primal Fear.