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[Catholic Caucus] Bergoglio’s Bistro: Dinner And Drinks in Santa Maria MaggioreFrancis sells food and drinks in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and offers to host parties there in 2024.The price list for "private visits" has been sent to tourist guides and travel agencies. Gloria.tv has obtained the list.A special offer is a visit before or after the opening hours of the Basilica to experience sunrise and sunset. Groups of up to 30 people pay €1000, and up to 120 people pay €1,750. The sacristy and crypt are open for an additional €150.Breakfast is €25, happy hour and 1 drink...

Financially-Strapped Vatican Opens Its First-Ever Shopping MallROME — The economically-ailing Vatican has inaugurated a 120,000-square-foot shopping mall to cater to the millions of tourists and pilgrims that visit it each year.After eating millions of dollars in losses on bad investments and running a serious deficit for several years in a row, the Vatican has opened the “Caput Mundi” Mall a stone’s throw from Saint Peter’s Basilica as an added revenue stream to supplement its flagging finances.The new mall boasts over 40 boutiques featuring select Italian and foreign brands and includes clothing, accessories, jewelry, toys, cosmetics, and an exclusive and innovative...

Eyeing 2025 Jubilee, Vatican opens shopping mall just off St. Peter’s SquareROME – Perhaps it was inevitable that the most storied church in Christendom eventually would be flanked by a chapel to that other defining Western creed, consumerism. Fulfilling that bit of destiny, the Vatican opened its very own shopping mall on March 16, located immediately adjacent to St. Peter’s Square.The idea behind the new 120,000 square foot “Caput Mundi” Mall, using a traditional saying about Rome as the “capital of the world,” is to appeal not only to the four million visitors who move through the Vatican every year,...

Francis Shelfs "Poverty" Ideology, Opens Luxury MallA luxury shopping centre called Vatican Mall with 57 shops will open in November near St Peter's Basilica. The three entrances are on Via della Conciliazione, Piazza di Porta Cavalleggeri and Via Urbano VIII, 16c, including a parking lot for tourist buses.The building belongs to the Vatican. It is noticeable that Francis has been putting his ideology of a "poor church for the poor" on hold for some time.EFE.com (7 October) explains the convoluted ownership of the property. The Vatican building is managed by the Italian company Terminal Vaticano, which leases it to the...

The Lawyer Who Decides Whether Pope Bobbleheads Are OK The Vatican’s Giuseppe Mascarucci approves some kitsch, nixes others and demands royalties VATICAN CITY—If you haven’t paid the licensing fees for selling your pope-themed shower curtains and key chains, the Vatican wants to know about it.The Coordination Center for the Protection of Images and Coats of Arms, known by its Italian abbreviation CCTIS, consists of two lawyers who work on the frescoed Third Loggia of the Apostolic Palace—the Vatican’s equivalent of the West Wing.In...