New York Times

Vatican confirms pope’s butler arrested in leaks scandal:

Who can be trusted these days?

In some of the old times mystery movies it was always the butler that “did it”. Now the Catholic Church has a another real life drama on their hands with the pope’s butler who got caught with the cannoli jar under his jacket.

Paolo Gabriele, a layman who lives or used to live inside Vatican City, was arrested Wednesday with secret documents in his possession and was being held Saturday, the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

The thing that is really irritating the pope and his cronies; the stolen papers that are called the “Vatileaks scandal” involves some financial improprieties that are going on with the  “The Holy See” and someone is about about to take the ship down with them all aboard in the Dead Sea.

In America we call them whistle blowers; in Italy they are called “soffiatori di fischietto”.

I guess the real 0bjective of the  “soffiatori di fischietto” was to discredit Pope Benedict’s’ No. 2 guy Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state. Bertone may have been cooking the books while he was making a pizza.  Not only did he burn the pizza and the books but he burnt his holy Italian butt in the process.

The latest estimates of the Vatican net worth is between 10 – 15 billion dollars. That is not chump change. They used to be worth a lot more but the perverted pedophile scandals cost the Catholic religion about 3 billion and change.

If “the right handers” would have come clean from the start and turned in the degenerate “men of the cloth” when they committed the outrageous crimes against the kids instead of covering them up they would be worth a few billion more. That is what it is all about, isn’t it, the money?

Instead of the pope giving Paolo Gabriele a promotion to head cook or something they put the poor guy under arrest. I would think that the pope would want to know if someone was tampering with the till.  It is quite possible the pope knew what was going on and was getting a cut.

Isn’t stealing a sin anymore or just when a laymen does it?

Issue number 2.

One other real concern for the pope is a book that is coming out shortly written by a journalist named Gianluigi Nuzzi. The revelations in the book are that his holiness sent some confidential letters to his personal secretary revealing some hanky panky that was going on with the Vatican’s finances and the pope was involved.

Isn’t there anything “sacred” anymore?

When are the crooks in this world going to learn not to text, send email or put anything incriminating on paper? That is Theft 101.

When religions started becoming big business it was all down hill after that.

Along with some modern day technology and excellent lip reading, the pope was caught talking about his butler saying; “that kid Paolo got balls as big as a bull to try and put the screws to me”.

With all of the nonsense going on in today’s world, even if a person tried really hard to “believe”, they are making it very difficult.
Just think, when I was growing up it used to be a sin if we ate meat on Fridays’.

Holy mackerel.