He just dropped a cool €2.9 million on renovating his palace and his lavish lifestyle is the subject of a legal investigation. But now the Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, dubbed the ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a German bishop who was under investigation for spending $42 million on the renovation of his residence. Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is known as ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday permanently removed a German bishop from his Limburg diocese after his 31 million-euro ($43-million) new residence complex caused an uproar among the faithful. Francis had ...

Pope Francis is mostly getting a thumbs-up from Catholics for suspending Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, a.k.a. the "Bishop of Bling," from his diocese in Limburg, Germany. $3 million on a marble ...

The general opinion among Catholic officials and the flock of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is that rather than fly cattle class last weekend, the priest should have thought about his ...