Devastating Accusations Levelled at Head of Pope's Council of Cardinals
Remember Pope Benedict XVI asking us to pray that he would not flee from the wolves ? Well we are now seeing what life under the wolves is really like. Day after day, scandal after scandal. Yesterday we had this: Cardinal Maradiaga is head of the Pope’s Council of Cardinals and a close friend of the Pope. These accusation of financial and personal malfeasence are devastating. The Pope is said to be investigating. https://t.co/mDoro9sFDp pic.twitter.com/kmhEr6kVC4 — Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) December 21, 2017 Basically the story is that Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, one of Pope Francis' closest friends and advisers and coordinator of the Council of Cardinals no less, who, like the Pope himself, is constantly preaching about "the poor", received half a million euros a year from a University in Honduras. Pope Francis has called for an investigation into millionaire investments and more inappropriate behaviour from one Bishop Pineda, a follower of the cardinal....