Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Archbishop of Melbourne, Philip Freier, has a $25M mansion, Bishopscourt, featuring 18 rooms and a couple of acres of luxurious gardens.

His opulent surroundings have in no way dampened his enthusiasm for excoriating everyone else’s tendency to make an idol out of the economy, the economy to which he owes his lavish residence.

From here:

There is a great danger that the economy has become an idol and Christians must ask questions about where we place our confidence, the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Dr Philip Leslie Freier told The Justice Conference on 18 April.

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“Idols are not founded in reality, but founded in a corrupted imagination. We are deceived when we give life to an idol, when we construct an idol with our own hands.”

This was followed by the customary vilification of economic “inequality”.

Here is a tour of Philip Freier’s humble dwelling – he does occupy just a one bedroom apartment in it, I should add; that’s what makes it “equal” and non-idolatrous: