Apparently, the Catholic Church has been using one of it's properties in Moscow to supplement it's income- it's been turned into a brothel.
In a statement, the Vatican said Franciscan friars in the Russian capital had rented out one of their apartments to a private individual who had assured them it would be used for "charitable purposes."
Instead it became a house of ill repute with prostitutes dressed as nuns, the Vatican said.
Pope John Paul's spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls branded the incident "a despicable operation designed to discredit the...brothers...and through them the Catholic Church."
Navarro-Valls' statement said the episode and Russian television broadcasts of people in religious attire acting immorally was part of a campaign "bent on damaging the reputation of the Catholic community."
I just love a free market economy, don't you??
