Unease in Vatican over cardinal's 'luxury flat'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.afp.com/en/news/unease-vatican-over-cardinals-luxury-flat



Unease in Vatican over cardinal's 'luxury flat'
20 Apr 2014

An Italian cardinal is moving into a 600-square-metre (6,500 square foot) Vatican apartment in apparent contradiction with Pope Francis's call for a "poor Church", Italian daily La Repubblica reported on Sunday.

Tarcisio Bertone is the Vatican's former Secretary of State, a role equivalent to prime minister, and the report said his luxury lodgings were stirring unease as Francis has pushed for clergymen to be more humble.

The flat also has a 100-square-metre roof terrace and is next to St Martha's Residence -- a Vatican hotel where Francis has taken up home, spurning the grander Apostolic Palace where popes usually live.

La Repubblica said that Bertone's flat would be about 10 times bigger than the apartment where Francis is living and that he was planning to move in before the summer after extensive building work.
politics.

[brush]

1. Seems like he's challenging the Pope.

Let's see how this unfolds.

[JayhawkSD]

2. About that bishop in Atlanta...

The pope required him to move out of and sell the $2.2 million mansion he had built for himself with the church's money, but he is still the bishop of Atlanta. Why did the Pope not discipline him for the self indulgent excess? Seems to me that the current message being promoted by the Pope would require that this guy be removed from office.