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Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations
(www.irishstar.com)
Except they have billions in stolen art and could liquidate it at any point. If not trillions, actually.
Nobody knows exactly what Vatican has but Porphyry Basin in the Vatican Museum is estimated to be worth 2$ billion alone (it was commissioned by Emperor Nero).
Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.
Nice
I am an agnostic so my opinion might not be worth anything to Christians (or Catholics specifically), but I don't really see the point in organized church structures. If you believe in God, support his ideals, why do you need to go to church anyway, or at least why would you want your local church support some big hierarchy (often with controversial opinions or actions) for your money?
Same reason people go to comicons or music concerts or protests. People just want to be with others who believe in and like the same things as they do. It's a pretty simple and basic human behavior.
"Faith without works is dead."
Ummmm... Fuck them?
Sell your fucking chair, you clown.
Pope Francis got rid of that already, some 10 years ago.
I haven't seen him on that chair since, but I'm sure it's somewhere collecting dust.
Gods plan
Thoughts and prayers!
Aww geez, our 1500 year old grift isn’t working as well as it used to, sad!
Good
What little concessions they made to progressives was far too little too late while former popes sided with child abusers and rapists.
Martin Luther has entered the chat
The joke is that Francis was still too far left for the big money Opus Dei Catholics in The United States and Europe.
They weren't friendly enough to the rapists. That's why the donations are drying up
Or maybe it's because people can't afford to donate money when they can barely afford rent and groceries
Time to start selling Indulgences again.
Just pray. If your God is the creator of the universe, it's pretty likely he can handle the situation once you let him know.
Dont forget the thoughts.
Just sell some real estate…. They’ll be fine.
"Man who lives in a golden palace complains about money troubles. "
If only we could all live in our own personal "country".
Sounds like any billionaire when tax collectors visit.
Good, because if they expect bills this means they are finally being held responsible for something
Anyone think this is some independently verified fact?
THEY’RE CLAIMING THIS TO GET OUT OF PAYING ALL THE LAWSUITS they get because of all the r4pe & 4bus3 of little children
You can say rape and abuse
Just as they can choose not to. That's the beauty of free will.
But me triggered from reading a word!
At that point avoiding using those words entirely seems like a better way. Could have just stopped at lawsuits. The rest is implied and considering the source most people are very aware.
But then they wouldn't get to talk in 1337speak like a cool cyberpunk hacker.
Well it's a good thing they have all that priceless art they can sell...
They could always start selling indulgences again!
In fact, they could even expand beyond the traditional Catholic market. Even Muslims get into Catholic heaven if they're willing to cut a big enough check! Maybe you can get some atheist billionaire to buy a $1 billion "just in case" indulgence.
I see a business opportunity here, who knows how to code a website 🤑😋?
They don't need to sell anything. They're sitting on the horde of Rome's wealth along with all the nazi gold the church took in during WWII. They have the wealth to easily pay their debts but would rather enter into bankruptcy than actually pay them.
What? BS.
Yeah wtf the Catholic Church in my country alone holds hundreds of billions in assets and investments.
Of course people are blaming him being too accepting of trans people, his view of "let them survive but they're sinners unwelcome to the eucharist" is unfortunately far too progressive for some.
Fortunately the church of Jesus of Nazareth will prioritize profit over peace and love
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Are you sure it's not because you've had to pay billions of dollars in settlements for priests raping children?
Are you sure that's not why?
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