Vatican police 'break up gay orgy' at church-owned home of one of Pope Francis' advisors

More storm clouds over the Vatican. This recent raid by Italian police is a reminder that in God's Bankers - A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, the top theory about why Pope Benedict resigned in 2013 was that he "had been stunned into resigning after the three cardinals he had appointed to investigate Vatileaks gave him what was said to be a jaw-dropping three-hundred-page top secret report exposing in detail a 'gay network' of ranking clerics. In that report were details about regular sex parties and the charge that as a group, not only did they exert 'undue influence' in the Curia but that some of them were blackmailed by lay outsiders."

Interesting footnote: the Vatican-owned apartment at the center of the new sex scandal is owned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the powerful doctrinal agency formerly run by Pope Benedict when he was a cardinal. And its the agency that ironically has oversight for handling the sex abuse-pedophilia clergy scandal.

Read more about the behind-the-scenes scandal that has rocked the church in Chapter 41, 'The Swiss James Bond'