Bishop Bling

[Hyena Dandy]

he effectivly was given a small budget for personal or company expenses. he works for a "company" that has the rule put down by their "CEO" (Christ) to spend as little as possible on the "company" and as much as possible to charitable works, and "upper management" (pope) that is known to support those rules. so doing something as stupid as blowing money on frivolous shit? he shoulda known better, and deserved the punishment.

I think that you kind of hit the nail on the head there. I think that the Pope's answer to "Well where was the rule?" would be that you have the rulebook, it's 1700 years old, and knowing it is basically the main feature of your job.

When you have a person who has a supposedly teaching job, and they are clearly not practicing what they literally preach. When the Church has a major part of its reason for Raison D'être spreading a message, then "This is not consistent with our message" is reason enough to remove one of your high-profile teachers.

And one point that should be noted is that he was expelled, not defrocked or excommunicated. There's an important difference there. He was expelled from his position of Bishop, as him being this major controversial figure and symbol of excess was a reason for him to lose that job, but he's not out on the street, now. He's at a monastery, and he's still a part of the clergy.

Additionally, his diocese had said in the press that it was spending 5.5 Million Euros on his residence's renovation, when the real cost was 31 Million. Even if he'd been allowed to spend 31 Million, I think you can say that him lying about it is worth him losing that position.