{"id":43372,"date":"2014-04-02T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_from_beacon_hill_to_bishop_bling_clergy_housing_faces_new_scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T22:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:30:48","slug":"rns_from_beacon_hill_to_bishop_bling_clergy_housing_faces_new_scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43372","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) From Beacon Hill to \u201d\u02dcBishop Bling,\u2019 clergy housing faces new scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bye-bye, \u201cBishop Bling.\u201d\u009d So long, \u201cPastor Perks.\u201d\u009d The so-called \u201cFrancis effect\u201d\u009d may be real, at least when it comes to clerical housing, and could be coming to a church near you.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis famously eschewed the trappings of the papal office, including deluxe digs in the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Palace, and the pressure of his example seems to be making itself felt.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the pontiff accepted the resignation of the most ostentatious offender, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg in Germany, aka \u201cBishop Bling\u201d\u009d who spent a cool $43 million on a swank new residence and office complex while cutting staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/04\/01\/beacon-hill-bishop-bling-clergy-housing-faces-new-scrutiny\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bye-bye, \u201cBishop Bling.\u201d\u009d So long, \u201cPastor Perks.\u201d\u009d The so-called \u201cFrancis effect\u201d\u009d may be real, at least when it comes to clerical housing, and could be coming to a church near you. Pope Francis famously eschewed the trappings of the papal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43372\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,149,168,600,435,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}