BERLIN (AP) — The drug haul was unremarkable, but the destination raised eyebrows. 
 
 German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday that customs officials intercepted a cocaine shipment destined for the Vatican in January. 
 
 Officers at Leipzig airport found 340 grams (12 ounces) of the drug packed into 14 condoms inside a shipment of cushions coming from South America. 
 
 The paper says the package was simply addressed to the Vatican postal office, meaning any of the Catholic mini-state's 800 residents could have picked it up. 
 
 Citing a German customs report, the paper adds that a sting operation arranged with Vatican police didn't lure a possible recipient. The drugs would have a street value of several tens of thousands of euros (dollars). 
 
 Neither German customs nor the Vatican could be immediately reached for comment. 

 German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine. 
 
 Newspaper Bild am Sonntag said that a box packed with 340 grammes of cocaine valued at €40,000 were seized at the international airport in the eastern city of Leipzig in January. 
 
 The narcotics, posted from an unnamed South American country, were in liquid form and had been poured into the condoms and placed in the package addressed to the main postal centre at the Vatican. 
 
 The newspaper, citing a German customs report, said authorities handed the package with the drugs to a police officer at the Vatican with the aim of laying a trap for a culprit who might try to claim it. 
 
 But Bild said the parcel had remained there since January. 
 
 German investigators believe the intended recipient, who remains unknown, was likely tipped off that the package had been intercepted, the newspaper said. 
 
 The Vatican office of Interpol is now working on the investigation with German police, according to the report. 
 
 German customs authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
– Let the party-at-the-Vatican jokes begin: German Customs authorities have intercepted a package of 14 condoms filled with cocaine and headed for the Vatican, reports RTE via Bild. The condoms contained about 12 ounces of the drug, worth an estimated $55,000. As the AP reports, the package was mailed from an unnamed Latin American country and addressed to the Vatican's post office—meaning that any of its 800 residents could have claimed it. German officials attempted a sting, but say they think the intended recipient had been tipped off.