"Naked beatings" and prostitution

[mgc1961]

The abuse scandal at the Regensburger Domspatzen choir is bigger than had been thought so far. Therapists in and around Munich treated several former choirboys who were traumatized by sexual and other physical abuse.

One man affected told SPIEGEL about cruel rituals in the Etterzhausen boarding school, a preparatory school for younger pupils from which the choir draws its recruits.

He said that at the end of the 1950s the headmaster of the school, a Catholic priest, had dealt out hard physical punishments. He had often practiced what was called "naked beatings" in his private rooms, where boys aged eight or nine had to undress and were beaten by hand. In some cases, the victim said, penetration took place.

More at http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,682344,00.html


In a related item:

A Nigerian man who sang in a Vatican choir arranged gay liaisons for an Italian government official who served in the unpaid role of papal usher, according to transcripts of wiretaps collected by Italian authorities.

The wiretaps were gathered as part of an investigation into how public-works contracts were awarded.

The purported conversations were between Angelo Balducci, who oversaw the Italian government's awarding of construction contracts -- including work on the airport at Perugia -- and Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 39-year-old Nigerian singer. They were recorded between April 14, 2008, and January 20, 2010.

More at http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/05/italy.government.scandal/index.html?hpt=T2


But heaven forbid two people of the same sex enter a loving state of matrimony. :eyes:

[AwakeAtLast]

1. There are worse things not being told, I'm afraid

This could be the downfall of Catholicism outright. :wow:

[yurbud]

2. they have always done this shit and it used to be worse. They just got better at hiding it after

the Reformation, when they had competition.