VATICAN CITY — As cardinals from around the world begin arriving in Rome for a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, new shadows have fallen over the delicate transition, which the Vatican fears might influence the vote and with it the direction of the Roman Catholic Church.
In recent days, often speculative reports — some even alleging gay sex scandals in the Vatican, others focusing on particular cardinals stung by the child sex abuse crisis — have dominated headlines in Italian news media, suggesting fierce internal struggles as prelates scramble to consolidate power and attack enemies in the dying days of a troubled papacy.
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The devil lives, works, and controls the Vatican. What a hideous bunch. After all these years, they are still sacrificing innocent people as heretics. Our children are still not safe.
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If the shoe fits.......
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The devil controls the vatican? You need therapy.
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There are at this time many genuine scandals in other religious institutions but they rarely get coverage in the liberal press that the Church does, even when the reports contain only rumors.
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People still believe in this stuff???
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