Sauna, pool and lover: the good life of the bishop, with the money of the Church
Monsignor Andreas Schwarz was bishop of Klagenfurt, in Austria: How many millions of euros he stole from the diocese has yet to be calculated
Only the swimming pool with attached sauna that he had built in Klagenfurt, where until May Andreas Schwarz was the bishop, it cost over a million euros. Removed from the heritage of the Carinthian Church itself. But what has most shocked public opinion is the relationship with Andrea Erzinger, his lover, appointed by him as director of a training center with an annual salary of 91 thousand euros. He was completely dominated by it: «He was conditioned by the arbitrariness and moods of this confidant of his- we read in the file drawn up at the end of the investigation -, due to the obligation of celibacy required for priests". A psychological subjection that could also have arisen from blackmail: the woman, revealing the secret, it would have ruined it. The suspect, but, is that the prelate squandered much more than a million, by unduly drawing on ecclesiastical movable and immovable assets. And what if criminal implications emerge, such as scams and speculation, the investigation could be reopened. They seem more and more numerous, Unfortunately, the cases of religious people who exploit their position as above suspicion to devote themselves to their own affairs. Men and women, in Italy and abroad. At the beginning of a month the news of a Venetian parish priest who gambled away 900 thousand euros from the slots faithful; a week ago two Californian nuns they squandered 500 thousand in Las Vegas. Only to stay in recent times. However, these were episodes of gambling addiction, that is, a real disease, well known and classified in psychiatry, to be cured of.
source: https://www.corriere.it/esteri/18_dicembre_21/sauna-piscina-amante-bella-vita-vescovo-soldi-chiesa-3702deb0-0506-11e9-af08-7a4d04b4d2e4.shtml

