The impulse to listen to BBC in order to strengthen my English pronunciation paid off.

Lookie at this gem:

One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/912534-vatican-staffer-implicated-gay-prostitution-ring.html#ixzz0hJ6esyE6

I went wut, then LOL'd.

OOHLALA SCANDALOUS~~~

What a farce. All these pious people. Heh. I bet that usher was the most God and Jesus and Thou-shalt-not person his friends and kin knew, but he still engaged in this promotion of...deviant practices.

Please note that I wholly support homosexuals if they love each other very much (that's the idealist talking), but I'm speaking within the usage of Christian English.

Statues don't talk. Apparitions that look like Jesus or Mary or my mom regularly appear in sandwiches, all you need is a spoon to shape the burnt area and a healthy amount of imagination.

If Jesus was real, he'll be rolling about in his tomb, except that he's supposedly ressurected, so I guess he's dissolving in a mist of self-pity.

Then again, the Vatican never really had a history filled with beautiful, chaste virgins and kindly sages. The original text used to be in the original languages of Latin and Greek? It was gradually translated to other languages at that time, particularly Latin, the 'scholars' language'. From regular CHinese-English translations we know that the translations can never substitute the meaning of the original text. But that's not my point. My point was that the bibles were translated into Latin Vulgate,"The Latin had become so corrupt that it no longer even preserved the message of the Gospel… yet the Church still threatened to kill anyone who read the scripture in any language other than Latin… though Latin was not an original language of the scriptures."This was because only the priests were educated to understand Latin, and this gave the church ultimate power… a power to rule without question… a power to deceive… a power to extort money from the masses. Nobody could question their “Biblical” teachings, because few people other than priests could read Latin. The church capitalized on this forced-ignorance through the 1,000 year period from 400 AD to 1,400 AD knows as the “Dark and Middle Ages”.

The church taught the ignorant masses, “As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the troubled soul from Purgatory springs!” Pope Leo the Tenth showed his true feelings when he said, “The fable of Christ has been quite profitable to us!”

Isn't this so holy and benevolent, so full of good deeds? This sacred institution where the weak are protected! Ooh delicious irony.

Okay, this gives me three names to choose from for my religious name. Hitler, Adolf or Leo the tenth. Okay, maybe without 'the tenth'.

I wonder how the catechists would responbd. Probably try to deny this ever happened or brush it off, saying the past is the past and then moving on to glorify that arse in the sky.

Whatever. I'll rather do something more productive, like counting the number of hairs I have on my head.