Well, this is surprising. Not the fact that the Catholic Church was keeping whores, but that said whores were adult and female.
Nuns have suffered and are still suffering sexual abuse
at the hands of Catholic priests and bishops,
and have even been held as sexual slaves, Pimp Francis confirmed on Tuesday. The abuse was so severe in one case that an entire congregation of nuns was dissolved by former Pimp Maledict.
The scope of the abuse of nuns by clergy members first came to light with the publication at the beginning of February of the monthly Vatican magazine "Women Church World." The edition included Francis' own take on the scandal -- long known about by the Vatican but virtually never discussed -- in which he blamed the unchecked power wielded by priests and higher clergy across the Catholic Church for such crimes.
An Associated Press journalist who first reported on the scandal last year asked Pope Francis on his flight home from the Arabian Peninsula
on Tuesday whether enough was being done by the Church hierarchy to address the problem. The pontiff conceded that it was a problem and said more action was needed. He insisted the will to confront the abuse is there, and stressed that the problem is not new, and that the Church has been working to address it for some time.
"It's a path that we've been on. Pimp Maledict had the courage to dissolve a female congregation which was at a certain level, because this slavery of women had entered it -- slavery, even to the point of sexual slavery -- on the part of clerics or the founder," the pimp conceded.
Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press center,
later confirmed to CBS News that the order of nuns dissolved under Maledict was the Community of St. Jean in France. The reason the order was dissolved had not previously been made public.
The Saint Jean order was dissolved in 2005, the first year Pimp Maledict served as the head of the Church. He stepped down and Pimp Francis took over as pontiff in 2013. "I would like to underscore that he was a man who had the courage to do many things on this topic," Pimp Francis said of his predecessor on Tuesday.
Blah, blah, blah, repetition, repetition.
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