Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory announced today that he will sell his $2.2 million mansion, which he just moved into three months ago.
Gregory says he made the decision following outcries from parishioners — and from an example of austerity Pope Francis has stringently followed during his first year on the job. Wondering what Gregory’s Tudor-style palace looked like?
As for how a priest even affords such digs, Joseph Mitchell, nephew of the author of Gone With the Wind, left more than $15 million to the local diocese when he died in 2011. The money was to be used for "general religious and charitable purposes," and Gregory apparently decided a personal mansion fell under that umbrella.
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"(Pope Francis has) called us to live more simply," Gregory told The Associated Press. "I'm disappointed in myself…I think this decision is an aberration rather than a pattern."
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