While everyone has been discussing the pope's comments on homosexuality, my attention was drawn to something else he said while chatting with reporters. The NY Times:
[Pope] Francis also commented on the case of Msgr. Nunzio Scarano, who was suspended as an accountant in the Vatican after being arrested in June for his alleged involvement in a plot to bring 20 million euros from Switzerland into Italy with the help of a former secret service agent and a financial broker, both of whom were also arrested.
Francis said, jokingly, that the monsignor had not been jailed “because he resembles the Blessed Imelda,” using an expression that means “he’s no saint,” The National Catholic Reporter reported.
In grade school, we had a Sister Mary Imelda and I'm sure there have been many Sister Imeldas, but I knew nothing about Blessed Imelda, nor have I ever heard the expression used by the pope. So off to Wikipedia I went, where I found quite a story:
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