[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/26/294685142/bishop-of-bling-is-a-bishop-no-more"]NPR Article[/URL]
[quote=NPR]The Vatican announced Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, who had been the bishop of Limburg, Germany. He will be assigned other duties.
It was last October when the Vatican suspended Tebartz-van Elst, following reports about $475,000 that was spent on walk-in closets, $20,000 for a bathtub and other expenditures that drove the cost of what was supposed to be a $7.5 million or so renovation to nearly 6 times that figure.
As Agence France-Presse adds, "he had also come under fire for lying under oath about flying first class to visit slum dwellers in India."
News accounts about Tebartz-van Elst's spending led to his less than flattering "bishop of bling" nickname. As Reuters notes, the stories came at a particularly sensitive time — "Pope Francis has been urging Church officials around the world to be more austere and live simple lives in order to be closer to the poor."[/quote]
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