UNITED STATES
Canonical Consultation

07/27/2015

Jennifer Haselberger

The National Catholic Reporter has an interesting article this week on the efforts of the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Limburg, appointed after the resignation of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (a.k.a. the ‘Bishop of Bling’), to hold the former bishop responsible for 3.9 million Euro in losses incurred by the diocese during his administration. According to the NCR, the Apostolic Administrator, Bishop Manfred Grothe, began, upon assuming temporary governance of the See, a ‘thorough investigation’ of the scandal that led to Tebartz-van Elst’s resignation, and in the process discovered ‘outright losses that had to be written off’ and which were directly attributable to decisions taken by the former bishop. The NCR reports that Tebartz-van Elst incurred the approximately $4.9 million in losses ‘by demanding late and costly changes, requiring earlier work to be scrapped, and ordering design studies that were not…