You'd think that members of the clergy would be above all of that, but the last 20 years has proven that sentiment to be false.
To be honest, the church has had a pretty jaded past throughout its history. I remember reading recently that the church put a hit out on the Medici family in the 1500s because the church owed them too much money. 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The senior cardinal >> defended Monday his … >> Mon Jun 21, 2:55 pm ET >> >> NAPLES, Italy (AFP) – A senior cardinal defended Monday his record at the >> head of a powerful Vatican body after being placed under investigation by >> Italian >> prosecutors<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>as >> part of a sweeping corruption scandal. >> >> "I did everything with maximum transparency," Crescenzio Sepe, who is also >> the archbishop of the southern city of Naples, told a news conference. >> >> Prosecutors in the central >> town<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>of >> Perugia are investigating Sepe over alleged kickbacks he accepted as the >> head of Propaganda Fide, the body handling the Vatican's vast real estate >> holdings and financing much of the Catholic Church's missionary >> work<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> >> . >> >> "It will be an easy defence, since it seems to me there is nothing, >> absolutely nothing, criminal in his behaviour," Sepe's lawyer Bruno Von Arx >> told reporters on Italian television, adding that prosecutors might question >> the cardinal this coming week. >> >> The probe is part of a larger corruption >> investigation<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>that >> has touched figures close to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, forcing >> one of his ministers to resign in May. >> >> Sepe, who headed Propaganda Fide from 2001 to 2006, allegedly sold a >> building at a quarter of its market value to Italy's then infrastructure >> minister<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>, >> Pietro Lunardi. >> >> Italian media have reported that in exchange for the favourable sale price >> Propaganda Fide obtained public subsidies worth 2.5 million euros for public >> works that never carried out. >> >> The works were contracted out to Rome construction magnate Diego Anemome, >> one of the linchpins of the system, and who is under investigation by >> prosecutors over several public tenders, including infrastructure for the >> Group of Eight summit in >> Italy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>last >> year. >> >> "I always acted following my conscience, with the good of the Church as my >> sole goal," Sepe said, reading from a letter addressed to the people of >> Naples. >> >> He also said that the Vatican approved all of the balance sheets involved >> in the probe and congratulated him for his management of Propaganda Fide. >> >> Sepe ended his statement with an oblique accusation to those implicating >> him in the scandal. >> >> "I forgive, from the bottom of my heart, those that -- in and outside the >> Church -- wanted to hit me," he said. >> >> Sepe, a beloved >> figure<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>in >> Naples, headed the committee organising works for the Great Jubilee of >> the year 2000 before being promoted to the head of Propaganda Fide in 2001. >> In 2006, he left that position to head the archdiocese of Naples. >> >> Italy's minister for economic development Claudio Scajola resigned over a >> similar probe into his purchase of an apartment in central >> Rome<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> >> . >> >> Scajola is suspected of accepting a large sum of money from Anemone >> towards the purchase of the apartment in July 2004. >> >> Guido Bertolaso, the head of the Civil Protection agency and one of Silvio >> Berlusconi's proteges, is also under investigation for alleged >> irregularities in the award of reconstruction contracts in earthquake-hit >> L'Aquila, in central Italy and is suspected of having benefited from a >> Propaganda Fide apartment. >> >> Vatican spokesman Federico >> Lombardi<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#>on >> Sunday demanded "prompt clarification" of the probe, adding that he was >> "confident the situation will be clarified quickly and in full to eliminate >> any shadows hanging" over Sepe and Church >> institutions<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_afp/vaticanpopeitalycorruption_20100621185553#> >> . >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! 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