Category
page 1Sexuality in Catholicism
homosexuality and the Catholic Church
Attitude of the Catholic Church to homosexuality and gay people

Banquet of Chestnuts
supper, allegedly held in the Papal Palace by Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, in 1501, as described in a diary by Master of Ceremonies J. Burchard; reportedly with chestnuts strewn around, with 50 naked courtesans picking them up
phallic saint
representation of a saint or fertility deity