2. The article compares the bishops to the idle rich, but in truth, the bishops are some of the most hard-working people in the world. In addition to attending to the administrative and judicial matters of their dioceses, bishops are also the leaders of multi-million-dollar charitable foundations and endowments and serve as the public face of the Catholic Church in the media....
4. Perhaps CNN can run a hit-piece on the practice of many Protestant and secular charitable foundations which provide their leaders with multi-million dollar condominiums as a tax-free fringe benefit. Just this weekend, a Protestant charity purchased a Manhattan office building for $13 million. The same building also houses office for the NAACP and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Meanwhile, Trinity Episcopal Church–a mere parish, not even a diocese–owns real estate in Lower Manhattan estimated at around $2 billion, with a “B,” as in bling. Cardinal Dolan’s $30 million residence is chump change by comparison.
Another hit piece on Protestants! BTW, look up the definition of "corporation in sole" within the context of Catholic archdioceses sometime. It makes for fascinating reading in regards to the bishop not owning his own personal residence.
Your quote translated:
But but but but, The Protestants do it!
Joel Grinning Hyena Osteen got his 55 million by milking old grandmas out of their life savings. Let’s see CNN do a hit piece on this con-man and the rest of the protestant “pastors” who live lifestyles of the rich and famous. Take a look at Mr. Ed Osteen’s current crib.
How ironic that when it's Protestants, it's evil, but when it's Catholicism, it's OK or laudable because the priests don't really *own* the stuff.
They have it even better because they can live like kings at someone else's expense and don't have to worry about the bills and upkeep, or anything else.