[NYer]

No modern pope has "lived in opulence"... and only ignorance could lead someone to say otherwise. But for anyone to say such a thing about Pope Francis, of ALL people...! Honestly... I'm at a loss.

Pope Francis' residence.

Pope Joel Osteen's residence.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The Osteen residence is kinda tacky. If I had the money, I’d like a lodge on a mountain or a house by the sea.

[metmom]

Apples and oranges.

You are comparing a bedroom with a whole residence.

Do have the integrity to compare like things.

[Elsie]

HMMMmmm...

I wonder if any of the following slept in that bed?

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Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

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( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)