It is no secret that Vatican-based cardinals and archbishops live in large, some might say palatial, residences. But now, thanks to a leaked list from 2013 of their sizes and who lives in them, we know exactly how big. Gianluigi Nuzzi’s book Via Crucis showed Cardinal William Levada, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, lived in a flat which was 524 square metres – more than an acre of space. An equivalent flat in London, as a benchmark, would cost upwards of £26m. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches, has a flat of 512 square metres; Cardinal Raymond Burke, the Patron of the Order of Malta, 417 square metres; and retired Cardinal Francis Arinze has 353 square metres. At the lower end of the scale is