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No Vested Interest

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10. I'm sure you're correct re activities there. Perhaps the Turks

Reply to rug (Reply #9)

Thu Nov 13, 2014, 04:23 PM

Nov 2014

could just drive Papa Francis up to that smaller red-roofed building (lower right) and pretend that's all there is to the Presidential quarters.
He could sign the book and make a quick exit.

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Pope Francis asked to avoid Turkey’s lavish 1,000-room presidential palace [View all] hrmjustin Nov 2014 OP

As compared to the Vatican? eom Cleita Nov 2014 #1

He doesn't live in the palace. he lives in a small apartment. hrmjustin Nov 2014 #2

Thank you. I feel bad because it does put him in a quandry. CurtEastPoint Nov 2014 #3

Yes it does seem out of place for him. hrmjustin Nov 2014 #4

I know that, but he's not condemning the Vatican as ostentatious which Cleita Nov 2014 #5

The Vatican belongs to the Church and consequently to the world. CurtEastPoint Nov 2014 #6

Don't get me wrong. I think the Turkish palace is plain wrong and in the Cleita Nov 2014 #7

What goes on in all those rooms? Are they offices, bedrooms, bathrooms, No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #8

Nefarious things. rug Nov 2014 #9

I'm sure you're correct re activities there. Perhaps the Turks No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #10

Surely, with that budget, okasha Nov 2014 #12

And he destroyed a forested park bequeathed by Attaturk to a secular Turkey. Leontius Nov 2014 #14

He's has a planned 250 room addition as a personal presidential residence. Leontius Nov 2014 #13

No one needs 250 rooms. What will they be- No Vested Interest Nov 2014 #15

There are a lot of lavish governmental palaces goldent Nov 2014 #11