Posted on 12/28/2020 2:02:35 PM PST by RummyChick
ROME (AP)— Pope Francis has formally stripped the Vatican secretariat of state of its financial assets and real estate holdings following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation.
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It sounds like the Secretariat was already off to a good start of divesting itself of assets.
That heads are not rolling seems an admissions that the Aegean stables seem undrainable.
Well, heck, if priests sexually abusing children was dealt with by sweeping under the rug, what’s a few billion in graft here and there? It’s comparatively chickenfeed.
While those who are sensitive to the value of the person would rightly agreed with you, the lust after wealth is a powerful and insatiable motivator for some, and letting a little mammon go is something some do not easily forgive.
And the 7th commandment is a commandment as well.
Adultery?
That would be the 6th by the more standard way of reckoning.
I suppose you lump your neighbor’s wife in with his donkey.
You’d think with two commandments devoted to the sins of the flesh, people would get the message, but no.
By Catholic reckoning, the Seventh Commandment is “Thou shalt not steal”; “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is the Sixth Commandment.
Time for Christ to drive the money changers out of the temple
If memory serves me right wasn’t there a major scandal in the Vatican in the late ‘70s and wasn’t it the reason the first John Paul ended up dead?
Or possibly a desire to do something coupled with a perceived inability to do nothing.
Who
Cares
?
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