ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
. .Noted Catholic church observer and blogger Rocco Palmo reports that “in his new job as catechesis czar for Pope Francis’ Evangelicism panel ,” German prelate Tebartz Van-Elst is in our town advising some of the 200+ bishops who are meeting this week at the downtown Hyatt. Van-Elst is better known as “The Bishop of Bling,” after he generated world-wide headlines by spending $43 million renovating his mansion. (The papal pick was also fined for perjury having sworn he and a colleague flew coach to India when, in fact, they’d flown first class).
ON THE EVE of the U.S. Conference of Bishops annual confab here, SNAP is posting online a virtual “Predator Priest Tour” concentrating on about 50 “proven, admitted or credibly accused molesting clerics” who lived or worked (still do) in the central corridor. . .
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