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German ‘Bling Bishop’ lands new Vatican job
TheLocal.de ^ | 10 Feb 2015 17:37 GMT+01:00

Posted on 02/10/2015 7:30:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

Reports that the former Bishop of Limburg has received a new job at the Vatican, despite being ousted from his post for a €31-million spending spree, sparked bafflement on Tuesday. […]

After several months living in an upscale 180-square-metre apartment in Regensburg, (Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst) is believed to have already relocated to Rome to take up a specially created post preparing catechetical materials for bishops’ conferences.

“The post was created for Tebartz-van Elst and has the hallmarks of a ‘make-work’ job because the Vatican couldn’t figure out what else to do with the prelate,” the RNS Religion News Service wrote from Vatican City on Tuesday. …

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: bishopofbling; germany; tebartzvanelst; vatican

1 posted on 02/10/2015 7:30:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Once again Pope Francis surprises EVERYONE.


2 posted on 02/10/2015 7:52:03 PM PST by vladimir998
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The dandy in his $55 mil. diggs. One must be caution of finding phallic symbols behind ever post, so to speak.
3 posted on 02/10/2015 9:05:05 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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