Duty demands that I once again post a picture of Anne Hathaway.

It seems her ex-boyfriend was not only involved in some shady dealings with the Vatican. He also bought the beach home of a bishop.

My paper of record, the New York Post, has details:

A New Jersey bishop who spent five years in Rome under Pope John Paul II sold his beach house to Raffaello Follieri last year, even as the accused con man’s alleged scheme to steal millions of dollars from investors began to unravel.

Bishop Joseph Galante, a former undersecretary at the Vatican and current head of the Camden Diocese, pocketed $400,000 for his four-bedroom townhouse in North Wildwood, NJ, in the sale to Follieri in February 2007, The Post has learned.

Last week, the property changed hands again, as the now-jailed Follieri, scrambling to raise the $21 million necessary to free him on bail on federal fraud and money-laundering charges, resold the house for an unknown sum.

But Galante and Follieri had more in common than a beach getaway: Both were keenly interested in the sale of church property.

Follieri is accused of exaggerating his ties to the Vatican in a scheme to fool investors into thinking he had first dibs on buying shuttered properties.

The feds claim Follieri went so far as to pay two monsignors to accompany him on business trips and used his ill-gotten gains to fuel a jet-set lifestyle and lavish gifts on his then-girlfriend, actress Anne Hathaway.

Meanwhile, Galante has actively pushed a controversial plan to close half the churches and schools in the Camden Diocese since his arrival in 2004 and personally introduced Follieri to several parish priests, sources said.

Galante also controls the Atlantic City parish where one of the two priests referred to in the criminal complaint against Follieri, Monsignor William Hodge, is based.

There’s more at the link. Including a picture of Bishop Galante. (Who, incidentally, is no Anne Hathaway.)