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(11,641 posts) Mon Oct 28, 2013, 02:44 PM Oct 2013

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'Bishop Of Bling' Mansion May Become Refuge For Poor [View all]

From NPR's blog:

'Bishop Of Bling' Mansion May Become Refuge For Poor

by Mark Memmott
October 28, 201312:17 PM

That mansion in Limburg, Germany, where about $40 million was spent on renovations for the since-suspended cleric now known as the "bishop of bling" may soon be "turned into a refugee centre or a soup kitchen for the homeless," according to reports and other European news outlets...

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/28/241391104/bishop-of-bling-mansion-may-become-refuge-for-poor?ft=1&f=1001

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'Bishop Of Bling' Mansion May Become Refuge For Poor [View all] think Oct 2013 OP

Exactly what should happen to all the megachurches here as well. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #1

To be fair DonCoquixote Oct 2013 #2

True. The amount of personal wealth accumulated by some men of the cloth is disgusting. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #3

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