{"id":2544,"date":"2008-07-15T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/07\/the-bishop-and-the-beach-house.html"},"modified":"2008-07-15T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T11:19:00","slug":"the-bishop-and-the-beach-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/07\/the-bishop-and-the-beach-house.html","title":{"rendered":"The bishop and the beach house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duty demands that I once again post a picture of Anne Hathaway.  <\/p>\n<p>It seems her ex-boyfriend was not only involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/deacbench.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/italian-job.html\">some shady dealings<\/a> with the Vatican.  He also bought the beach home of a bishop. <\/p>\n<p>My paper of record, the New York Post, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07152008\/news\/regionalnews\/a_deal_with_the_devil_119940.htm\">details<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 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&#8217;s alleged scheme to steal millions of dollars from investors began to unravel. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SHzBeoBYldI\/AAAAAAAACnU\/p0JlUO7uXw8\/s1600-h\/anne_hathaway%5B1%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0DySLTT4PWo\/SHzBeoBYldI\/AAAAAAAACnU\/p0JlUO7uXw8\/s320\/anne_hathaway%5B1%5D.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>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. <\/p>\n<p>But Galante and Follieri had more in common than a beach getaway: Both were keenly interested in the sale of church property. <\/p>\n<p> 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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> There&#8217;s more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07152008\/news\/regionalnews\/a_deal_with_the_devil_119940.htm\">the link<\/a>.  Including a picture of Bishop Galante.  (Who, incidentally, is no Anne Hathaway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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