{"id":7031,"date":"2004-07-12T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/silly_pranks.html"},"modified":"2004-07-12T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T08:21:08","slug":"silly_pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/silly_pranks.html","title":{"rendered":"Silly Pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps something is lost in translation, but that’s how one Austrian bishop described the, er, hi-jinks unearthed at an Austrian seminary<\/a><\/p>\n

Roman Catholic leaders in Austria called an emergency meeting today after officials discovered a vast cache of photos and videos allegedly depicting young priests having sex at a seminary.<\/p>\n

About 40,000 photographs and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography, were downloaded on computers at the seminary in St Poelten, about 50 miles west of Vienna, the respected news magazine Profil reported.<\/p>\n

…Bishop Kurt Krenn, a conservative churchman who oversees the St Poelten Diocese, told Austrian television he had seen photos of seminary leaders in sexual situations with students. Krenn, however, dismissed the photos as \u201csilly pranks\u201d that \u201chad nothing to do with homosexuality\u201d.<\/p>\n

A group of St. Poelten Diocese officials planned to ask the Vatican to remove Krenn as bishop, Austrian radio reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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