> Sixty-Billion seems a bit low for.the Vatican’s wealth. <
The Vatican is quite good at hiding its true wealth. I’ve seen numbers as low as $30 billion and as high as $120 billion. I picked $60 billion as a number somewhere in the middle. But who (except for the pope) really knows?
Some folks say that as a sovereign nation, the Vatican is within its rights to hide its true wealth. Well, I’d counter that by saying that no other nation has collection boxes all over the world. So maybe a little transparency would be a good thing.
And had the collection up for 1500 years!