The Passion of the Bureaucrats
Tim Parks: Skulduggery in the Vatican, 18 February 2016
Avarizia: Le Carte che Svelano. Ricchezza, Scandali e Segreti della Chiesa di Francesco
by Emiliano Fittipaldi.
Feltrinelli, 224 pp., €14, December 2015,978 88 07 17298 4 Show More
by Emiliano Fittipaldi.
Feltrinelli, 224 pp., €14, December 2015,
Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis’s Secret Battle against Corruption in the Vatican
by Gianluigi Nuzzi, translated by Michael Moore.
Holt, 224 pp., £24.99, December 2015,978 1 62779 865 5 Show More
by Gianluigi Nuzzi, translated by Michael Moore.
Holt, 224 pp., £24.99, December 2015,
“... whether the Vatican really is on the brink of bankruptcy or, on the contrary, swimming in cash. Emiliano Fittipaldi’s Avarizia opens with a description of an expensive lunch with two unnamed monsignors who have brought along a carload of documents but forgotten their wallets. Acting, they say, in support of the pope’s reforming mission, the clerics ... ”
