{"id":3708,"date":"2018-03-12T04:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2018-03-12T04:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:03:53","slug":"vatican-shake-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/vatican-shake-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Shake-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in lovely downtown Vatican City, the&nbsp;<em>Holy See&nbsp;<\/em>is being rocked by yet another sex scandal.&nbsp; At the center of the trial is&nbsp;<strong>Father Luca Morini<\/strong>, who is accused of corruption.&nbsp; It all started when he contacted&nbsp;<strong>Francesco Mangiacapra<\/strong>, a male escort.&nbsp; According to Mangiacapra, Morini spent hundreds of thousands of Euros which he got out of parishioners and superiors in the Catholic Church.&nbsp; When Mangiacapra realized what was going on, he contacted the archdiocese, but nothing was done.&nbsp; Then he called the local news.&nbsp; Suddenly, Morini was removed from his church due to \u201csickness\u201d.&nbsp; Allegedly, the Church bought him an expensive villa, hired a maid, and paid all his expenses.&nbsp; It\u2019s said that Morini blackmailed a bishop into taking care of him after he threatened \u201cto expose to the public eye unpleasant facts about many diocesan priests.\u201d&nbsp; Mangiacapra has produced a 1,200-page dossier which names names, and provides additional documentation \u2013 including photos and videos of Morini snorting cocaine and cavorting with male hookers.&nbsp; It also includes evidence against 60 other priests.&nbsp; \u201cThe goal isn\u2019t to hurt the people I\u2019ve mentioned, but to help them understand that their double life isn\u2019t useful to them or to the people who rely on them for guidance.\u201d&nbsp; He also claims that no minors were involved.&nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re talking about sins, not crimes.&nbsp; I only want this out so that these people will stop preaching hatred towards gays,\u201d says Mangiacapra.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile in lovely downtown Vatican City, the&nbsp;Holy See&nbsp;is being rocked by yet another sex scandal.&nbsp; At the center of the trial is&nbsp;Father Luca Morini, who is accused of corruption.&nbsp; It all started when he contacted&nbsp;Francesco Mangiacapra, a male escort.&nbsp; According to Mangiacapra, Morini spent hundreds of thousands of Euros which he got out of parishioners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}