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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGerman 'Bishop of Bling's multi-million euro mansion to be used to serve needy
Germanys recently suspended Bishop of Bling faces the prospect of seeing his lavish multimillion euro residence turned into a refugee centre or a soup kitchen for the homeless, Catholic church officials in his home diocese announced today.
Bishop Franz Peter Tebartz-van Elst was formally suspended last week amid accusations that he had spent over 31m (£26.5m) on renovating his official residence in Limburg. The charges, which earned the 53-year-old bishop his nickname, provoked outrage among German Catholics.
Yesterday, church officials in Limburg said they were taking their own steps to admonish him.
The residence is like an inherited sin which the bishop has left in his wake, said a spokesman for the Caritas organisation for the homeless. People who seek sanctuary with us could be given food in the residence, he added.
Turning the complex into a refugee centre would follow the practice of a former Limburg bishop who housed a refugee family from Eritrea while he moved into a residence for novice priests.
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German 'Bishop of Bling's multi-million euro mansion to be used to serve needy (Original Post)
rpannier
Nov 2013
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. It would take another renovation...
I'm not sure a soup kitchen would need marble bathtubs and gold plated bathroom accessories. Then again, the refugees could probably do a pretty good job of renovating it themselves.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)2. But this Pope has changed *nothing*? Am I right?
And he kisses people with crippling deformities to keep them away from medical care, yes?
rpannier
(24,329 posts)3. If he gave away all the Vatican treasures to the poor, people here would
still be upset that he was wearing the vestments
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. they'd still think he did 9-11
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)5. This is great to hear.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)6. This is a great decision.
I can't think of a better use for it.