Pope on the Ropes

Well, one story I haven’t been paying enough attention to in the last month is this whole Vatican Leaks foofaraw, hoo boy!  Money laundering, sweetheart contracts, fat cat donors buying an audience with the pope, all sorts of sleazy financial dealings, backstabbings and other office politics.

The CEO

So far, one guy’s been fired and one is under arrest, but they are probably the whistle blowers.  The butler got caught with the papers in his apartment, in the Vatican, so he’s in jail, and the head of the Vatican Bank (Holy Shit, the Vatican has its own bank!) got fired, “erratic behavior” they said, but the way I see it, they figured out that the bank dude was passing the papers to the butler who was passing them to the press, meaning his most holy holiness of holies, former Nazi Joseph Ratzinger, hopes to keep those two quiet and carry on with his merry little crime network.

Oh, for the good old days, when the only problem with the Catholic church was so many priests buggering little boys.