VATICAN CITY
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(CNN) – New controversy is rocking the vatican in benedict the 16th’s final days as pope. The pontiff came out of a pre-lenten retreat Saturday.
On February 11 Pope Benedict the sixteenth announced shocked the world that he was stepping down at the end of the month, too old and too tired to carry out his official duties.
But, a report first broken in the Rome Daily, La Repubblica, suggests his reason for resigning was far more explosive: Shock at the discovery of a network of gay priests at the Vatican blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes.
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