The Vatican owns properties around Rome that are being "used as brothels and massage parlours where priests pay for sex," a source from within The Vatican claims.

The alleged revelation is the latest to surface in the ongoing "Vatileaks" scandal, a term applied to the recent leak of several Vatican documents meant to embarrass the Catholic church.

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The leak also claims that Vatican officials have been renting buildings in Rome out for cheap as favors to other high-ranking officials. Several of those properties, the whistleblower claims, are allowed to operate as "red-light establishments" by those who own them so they can patronize the establishment under a veil of privacy.

Two of the properties include one close to the Italian Parliament and a solarium near Piazza Barberini.

The Independent notes this isn't the first time The Vatican has been caught up in a similar scandal. Two years ago, it was revealed that The Vatican had purchased an apartment block in Rome that included a popular gay sauna that hosted priest-themed "bear nights" for the regular Catholic priest customers.

Senior Vatican official Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda (pictured) and another have been arrested in connection with the leaks, and four other cardinals have been questioned. The Vatican has and will probably continue to refuse to comment.