Defying Pope Francis? Cardinal eyes luxury apartment

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His luxury lodgings are stirring unease since Pope Francis has pushed priests to be more humble. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is moving into a 600-square-meter (6,500 square foot) Vatican apartment in apparent contradiction with Pope Francis’s call for a “poor Church,” Italian daily La Repubblica reported on April 20. The flat also has a 100-square-meter roof terrace and is next to St Martha’s Residence – a Vatican hotel where Francis has taken up home, spurning the grander Apostolic Palace where popes usually live. Bertone is the Vatican’s former Secretary of State, a role equivalent to prime minister. His stint as Secretary of State under Benedict XVI was highly divisive in the Vatican administration and top clerics had asked the then pope to dismiss him.

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