Posted on 08/12/2004 11:08:36 AM PDT by Robert Drobot
VIENNA, Austria Aug. 12, 2004 — A papal emissary on Thursday shut down an Austrian seminary where authorities reported finding about 40,000 photos and numerous videos, including child pornography, on computers.
Other photographs of seminary students kissing and fondling each other and their older religious instructors at the seminary also were found in the diocese of St. Poelten, about 50 miles west of Vienna.
Some of the photos were published in Austrian media and triggered a public uproar that prompted Pope John Paul II to dispatch Bishop Klaus Kueng as an "apostolic visitor" to contain the scandal.
It might be more charitable to consider the source, and take pity on the quantity of drivel the Religion Mod is tasked to review.
May the Blessed Trinity strengthen the Mod in meeting the burden of his office.
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