The was a very interesting novel written in the 1970s by a French author, Jean Raspail, called Camp of the Saints. In the book Raspail describes how a pope was sleeping on straw mat in the Vatican apartments after he had stripped he Vatican bare of all its treasures and sold them to help the poor. Raspail comments that all this money was barely enough to fund the rural development budget of Bangladesh for one year.
The pope doesn’t live as comfortably as Maher does. His is more like a life in a fancy monastery.