Emanuela Orlandi kidnapped for Vatican sex parties, priest says

Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's former chief
exorcist, poses on Oct. 10, 2005, in Rome.
(AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

Vatican security acted on behalf of foreign diplomats, Father Amorth tells newspaper.

David TrifunovMay 23, 2012 13:45

Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped for sex parties, with Vatican security acting on behalf of foreign diplomats, a controversial priest inside the Holy See told an Italian newspaper.

Orlandi, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, disappeared from Rome’s streets 29 years ago after a flute lesson.
Italy has long fixated on her disappearance, and now Father Gabriele Amorth has added to the mystery by saying Vatican security abducted her for sex parties with foreign diplomats, The Telegraph reported.

“Parties were organized, with a Vatican gendarme acting as the ‘recruiter’ of the girls,” Amorth told La Stampa, as translated by The Telegraph. “The network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle.”

Amorth, who said Orlandi was later murdered, is no stranger to controversy.

Pope John Paul II appointed him the Vatican’s chief exorcist, and he generated international headlines late last year when he claimed yoga and Harry Potter were both evil.
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American Nuns Busted for Being a Crazy Bunch of Radical Feminists

The Vatican has decided to crack down on
American nuns. (photo: Jezebel)

By Cassie Murdoch, Jezebel

20 April 12

ffering further proof that the world is becoming an increasingly weird place, the Catholic Church has decided to crack down on American nuns who, as anyone who has been around a nun recently knows, are a bunch of freewheeling party sisters. Wait, what? Yes, the Vatican has just taken disciplinary action against a group of American nuns who they say are proponents of "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." Oh no?

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella group representing most of America's 55,000 nuns, is in trouble with the Vatican because they've apparently have not been vocal enough in their opposition to gay marriage, abortion, and women's ordination. So now it's not enough to just be opposed to things the church is against? You also have to stand up and yell about it? That's some bullshit right there. As far as those radical feminist ideas they've been spreading, that evil has supposedly been taking place at conferences sponsored by the LCWR.

This directive came as the result of a two-year-long investigation - excellent use of resources, boys - and appears to be part of what is seen as the church veering into more conservative territory. You might not think nuns would be the obvious target of any investigations, considering it's the priests who've been causing most of the actual problems the church has faced recently, but of course organized religion never lets a little thing like logic get in the way.   READ MORE

Vatican Official Condemns GMOs as 'New Form of Slavery'

Ghanian-born Cardinal and top Vatican official
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, 11/12/11.
{photo: LaStampa)

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society
Gucciardi writes: "In an interview with the magazine L'Osservatore Romano on January 5, a prominent member of the Vatican spoke out against genetically modified crops. Cardinal Peter Turkson said that genetically modified crops are a 'new form of slavery,' and went on to discuss the impact that they have on both the environment and the economy."
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