No wonder real estates are so expensive in London - Church uses it for business instead of letting people who want to have a home live in them
So it seems that Pope threw the Cardinal and other Vatican officials under the train because they lost his money.
Quote:Big Corruption Trial Opens at the Vatican
Proceedings have begun in what observers call the largest criminal trial in modern times involving Vatican officials. Ten people, including a once powerful cardinal, are facing charges of corruption and fraud.
The trial is the result of a two-year investigation into a failed investment of more than 400 million dollars into the London property market
Seventy-three year-old Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, a close aide to Pope Francis, was chief of staff of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State when he was forced to resign last September so that he could be indicted.
Charges against Becciu include embezzlement and abuse of office related to the purchase of a property in the prestigious South Kensington area of London.
The London real estate deal dates back to 2014 when the Secretariat of State invested initially around 240 million dollars, much of it from church donations, into a fund operated by Mincione. Half the sum was to secure 45% of the London luxury property and the remainder for other investments.
Soon it became apparent to the Vatican the investments would not only not be profitable, but that losses would be huge. Other individuals were brought in to salvage a situation that would only take a turn for the worse.
https://www.voanews.com/europe/big-corru...ns-vatican
So it seems that Pope threw the Cardinal and other Vatican officials under the train because they lost his money.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"