{"id":2049,"date":"2016-03-12T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:37:32","slug":"the-pope-cracks-down-on-the-saints-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"The Pope cracks down on &#8220;the Saints Factory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Money is the root of all evil.&quot; This from the Telegraph (UK).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/the-pope\/12190255\/Pope-Francis-cracks-down-on-secretive-Vatican-department-dubbed-the-Saints-Factory.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM98088&amp;WT.tsrc=email&amp;etype=Edi_Wor_New&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=Edi_Wor_New_2016_03_11&amp;utm_campaign=DM98088\">Pope Francis cracks down on secretive Vatican department dubbed &#39;the Saints&#39; Factory&#39;. Shadowy business of choosing Catholics to be made saints has been tainted by allegations of greed and corruption <\/a>\\<\/p>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Pope imposed strict new regulations demanding much greater transparency and accountability in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which handles the complex, opaque world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/vaticancityandholysee\/10791460\/Pope-Francis-makes-saints-of-Popes-John-XXIII-and-John-Paul-II.html\" target=\"_blank\">promoting worthy Catholics to sainthoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>The 23 new rules included a warning that disciplinary measures will be taken against anyone suspected of abusing the system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The new regime was introduced after leaked Vatican documents published last year revealed that the process was rife with waste, nepotism, favouritism and corruption, with wealthy patrons spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to have their favoured candidate made a saint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>A process designed to elevate worthy candidates to the highest pedestal in the Catholic firmament was found to be anything but saintly in the way that it carried out its business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Money is the root of all evil.&quot; This from the Telegraph (UK). Pope Francis cracks down on secretive Vatican department dubbed &#39;the Saints&#39; Factory&#39;. Shadowy business of choosing Catholics to be made saints has been tainted by allegations of greed and corruption \\ The Pope imposed strict new regulations demanding much greater transparency and accountability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}