Business as usual:
ROME — The Vatican’s ongoing financial scandals show no sign of letting up as police have uncovered hundreds of thousands of euros in cash along with precious gold coins and medallions hidden in two homes of a suspended Vatican official.
According to a report by Italian investigative journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, the stash of former Vatican administrator Fabrizio Tirabassi included several pounds of gold and silver coins as well as 600,000 euros in cash, much of which was stuffed into an old shoebox.
Go here to read the rest. Sex gets most of the ink, but greed for money has always been the number one cause of corruption within the Church.
Cash stuffed in a shoebox? Wonder if he ever heard of Paul Powell, one of the long list of notorious IL politicians:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Powell_(politician)
That occurred to me too Elaine! The first firm I worked for in 1982, after I graduated from law school, represented the Bank that had charge of the money from the shoe box, and the FBI would show up each year to conduct an audit.
It’s the money more than the sex that gets you imprisoned.
I suspect that will be the case, eventually, for many prelates & priests with their hand in the ‘shoe box’.
Sex and money go together like peanut butter and jelly,