CROATIA
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
A Croatian priest bedevilled with “insatiable egotism” has gone on the run with more than £1 million pocketed from an illegal land sale and in the company of a married woman, according to reports.
By Matthew Day
7:47PM BST 16 Oct 2012
Franciscan priest Father Sime Nimac disappeared after withdrawing the money he had made from selling a piece of Church land near Split without authorisation from the local diocese.
“The property was sold without the explicit written consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority,” the local Catholic Church said in a statement, adding that it had filed a lawsuit to nullify the sale.
“At the same time we express our heartfelt understanding for the public revulsion caused by the insatiable egotism of the individual in question,” the statement continued. “We offer a sincere apology on behalf of all Friars of the Franciscan Order.”
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