Vatican department shares building with Italy's biggest gay sauna The apartments were bought for nine million euros on May 30 2008 by a property company which later that day sold them to the Vatican for 20 million euros, making an instant profit of 11 million euros, the daily claimed. One of the apartments bought by the Vatican is inhabited by Cardinal Ivan Dias, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of the Peoples. The cardinal, who is Indian, will take part in the conclave to elect a new Pope. He is the archbishop emeritus of Mumbai and also served as a Vatican diplomat, holding posts in Scandinavia, Madagascar and Mauritius. Not far from his apartment, and accommodation for around 15 clergy, is the gay sauna club. The Vatican has declined to comment.