Vatican Enables Illegal Gay Rave on New Year’s Eve Pope's almoner pays electricity bill allowing drug-fueled party ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is facing public relations blowback after a residential building secured for migrants by a cardinal close to Pope Francis was used for a drug- and alcohol-fueled illegal gay rave on New Year's Eve. More than 5,000 young people, including a large number from the LGBTQ+ community, went ahead with the party on Dec. 31 — in defiance of the police chief's notice delivered to the organizers, according to Leo Zagami, author of Pope Francis: The Last Pope? Money, Masons and Occultism in the...