To Catch a Predator - the Vatican Edition

Every time we turn on the TV we are hearing about yet another pedophilic incident involving the Vatican and a violated altar boy. Well it's not going to be getting better any time soon for the old men in their Ivory Towers at the Vatican. Dateline NBC has released news that their vigilante reality show To Catch a Predator has just finished filming a special Vatican City edition.

To Catch a Predator is of course the Dateline NBC reality show where we see "respected members of society" caught in an undercover, underage, sex sting all live and in living color streamed to our living rooms. Television certainly has come a long way from the early days and "Leave it to Beaver" but I digress.

I've had the opportunity to see the Vatican Special and I for one found it quite enlightening.

It was mentioned several times in the show that the Holy Father had an "unholy" and unnatural attraction to former Calvin Klein underwear model Mark Wahlberg. This attraction seems to be more than just tabloid fodder when the NBC cameras focus on an autographed picture of the former model sitting on the bedside table.
It says:
Good God Holy Father you rocked!! - Mark W



I bet Jesus was rolling over in his grave when he say that photo....

The television crew certainly where busy during their stay at the Vatican. In the little time they spent trolling the seedy underbelly of Vatican City they where able to catch an Archbishop, 2 Cardinals and 14 Priests. They said it was like shooting fish in a barrel,or clubbing baby seals on an ice floe.

I did learn one interesting fact during the NBC Special. It seems that that US Department of Justice -the people responsible for the Witness Protection Program will be joining forces with the Vatican.

The Vatican has been so successful when it comes to hiding and relocating pedophile priests that the Department of Justice feels it can use the same practices and processes when it comes to protecting high level informants like Mickey “The Worm” Costelle and Osama Bin Laden

We certainly live in interesting times.....