15 Secrets Hidden Inside the Pope's Private Rooms

15 Secrets Hidden Inside the Pope's Private Rooms Have you ever wondered what's really going on inside the Pope's private rooms? The answers range from surprisingly bleak to genuinely bizarre. Vatican City may look like a palace of gold and prayer from the outside — but step through the right doors and you'll find a place where one pope kept 20,000 books and another refused to eat, a room that technically had a death penalty attached to it, a housekeeper who ran the most powerful private residence in Catholicism for 41 years and then got asked to leave within hours of her employer's death, and a bathroom renovation that somehow became an international financial scandal. Let's count down 15 weird facts about the Pope's private quarters that most people have never heard.