El Vaticano en problemas por desalojar a más de 4,000 personas

Muy cristiano el comportamiento de la iglesia... ¿Dónde está el "predicar con el ejemplo"? Ah, cierto, no aplica para la iglesia católica. Cierto.

Several thousand residents in Rome who face eviction from their rented homes by the Roman Catholic church this week have accused church bodies of indulging in a "speculative frenzy".

In a letter to Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian bishops' conference, a committee formed by tenants said: "We have always paid the rent and taken care of our flats. None of the evictions is for non-payment of rent; they are all because of expired leases."he problem is most acute in the centre of the Italian capital, where a quarter of the property is owned by the Vatican and church organisations.

The protest could scarcely have come at a more embarrassing time for the Italian Roman Catholic hierarchy or its leader. Last month, Archbishop Bagnasco made a widely reported speech in which he deplored a shortage of low-cost housing. He said: "I am referring in particular to the tragedies of those such as pensioners or single-income families who are served with eviction orders and cannot find alternative [accommodation]."