An interesting story is unfolding concerning the Vatican, porn, and the possibility that “holy” people are watching “filth.” What I didn’t know was that this story ignited in, of all places, Ireland.
Seems a video store owner by the name of Paul Flynn has been renting DVDs to a local priest. In January, the priest mentioned he’d recently enjoyed the movie “Lincoln.” Problem was, “Lincoln” hadn’t been released yet. When asked how he saw it, the priest replied:
…we have a film club once a week and we watched it up at the monastery.
It got worse.
“We watched Django Unchained last week, which I found very violent,” the priest told Paul. “We watched Les Miserables the week before and Zero Dark Thirty the week before that.”
Flynn couldn’t help but wonder how these priests had access to all these unreleased movies. He figured they were either an “Oscar voter or something else.” Turns out they were “something else.”
What we appear to have here is a secret pirate movie club located in a monastery, run and frequented by priests. If that wasn’t enough, Paul says the priests just don’t see anything wrong in it either.
This piqued the interest of the folks at TorrentFreak so they investigated the Vatican and sure enough, they found downloads of various television shows, old movies, a little music… pretty boring stuff. But then…
But just when the whole exercise was beginning to fall a bit flat, we spotted some downloads to get pulses racing. It seems that while Vatican dwellers aren’t all that interested in Hollywood movies, they do enjoy adult related celluloid.
Hmmm. While this little investigation doesn’t necessarily implicate any particular person within the Vatican as a porn watcher, I have to wonder if, perhaps, since the Vatican is kind of like the Catholic Capitol of the world, and the Catholic Church is rather anti-porn, shouldn’t I expect that location to be relatively porn free? I’m evidently wrong.
As always, so many questions.
