Demoted NYC priest who OK’d racy Sabrina Carpenter video has more than $2M in ritzy real estate, records show

Nypost ^ | 11/29/2024 | By Hannah Fierick and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[ChicagoConservative27]

Holy cow!

A recently demoted Brooklyn priest whose church finances are under federal investigation has an impressive real estate portfolio worth more than $2 million, including a house in the Hamptons and a pricey waterfront condo in Florida, a review of records by The Post reveal.

Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, who had his pastoral duties yanked at Our Lady of Mount Carmel — Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary last week even peddled a $2,000-a-week timeshare on the resort island of St. Martin on Facebook in October, the review found.

[ChicagoConservative27]

A grifting priest.

[simpson96]

Has his own tv show, too.

[ClearCase_guy]

He probably sells children.

[pepsi_junkie]

Priests don’t take a vow of poverty and if they come from wealthy family or have wealth of their own prior to taking holy orders, they get to keep it. And they can earn on the side too, though that may be frowned on. Not saying this is the case here, just that him having wealth doesn’t necessarily mean he stole it.

[Ge0ffrey]

Only religious order priests take a vow of poverty, not diocesan priests.

[af_vet_1981]

A grifting priest.

Be careful.
Matthew 12:

36. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

"When I got to the parish there was less than $2 million in reserves," he said. "As of this day, there are $5 million in reserves, and I've done $5 million in renovations and repairs to our two churches and every single building and the grounds."

[DesertRhino]

So much for that vow of poverty.

[BipolarBob]

Shame! Sells is such a harsh word. Rents is much nicer.

[jimfree]

Sounds like a Medici.

[Chicory]

As a couple of posters above you pointed out, diocesan priests do not take vows of poverty.

As pepsi_junkie wrote:
>> Priests don’t take a vow of poverty and if they come from wealthy family or have wealth of their own prior to taking holy orders, they get to keep it. And they can earn on the side too, though that may be frowned on. Not saying this is the case here, just that him having wealth doesn’t necessarily mean he stole it. <<

[pepsi_junkie]

I said "Priests don’t take a vow of poverty", I am not sure why people seem to think i said they do.

[Chicory]

Sorry about that — I included you in my reply because I quoted you in answer to Desert Rhino’s post (which said “So much for that vow of poverty.”)