VATICAN CITY
Gay Star News
06 JANUARY 2014 | BY JOE MORGAN
One of the Pope’s former personal bodyguards has claimed he received several sexual advances from priests while serving at the Vatican.
He claims he received 20 to 25 explicit sexual advances from cardinals, bishops and other members of the clergy.
On one occasion, a cardinal even invited him up to his rooms in the Vatican.
The unnamed soldier served in the Swiss Guard during the papacy of John Paul II, which lasted from 1978 until 2005.
‘One night, sometime after midnight, I received a call on my mobile phone. The person on the other end said he was a cardinal and asked me to come to his room,’ he told Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag.
In the latest sex scandal involving the Catholic Church, the security guard also claimed a bishop left a bottle of whisky on his bed with a visiting card placed next to it.
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