Monday, January 21, 2019

Money, religion and sex

From The Tablet this week.

Rome's mayor, Virginia Raggi has said that the Catholic charity Caritas will keep the €1.7 million of coins tossed into the Trevi Fountain every year.

Opus Dei has acknowledged it paid out $977,000 in 2005 to a woman who claimed that one of its priests had groped her.
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