Cut the ermine and silver and jewels and Prada shoes stuff. The vestments are museum pieces and the Vatican a museum. The First Baptist Church if Dallas, TX and many of the mega churches have as much material wealth as the Vatican, and its host of preachers and Amen corner people enjoy as much or more material wealth as the Vatican clergy. If they are going for apostolic poverty, let them imitate St. Francis and strip themselves of the Hart, Schaefner and Mark suits.
lol. A museum? This just gets goofier as the defense crumbles. Per Wikipedia...
o Roman Curia, the administrative apparatus of the Holy See
+ Vatican Secret Archives, which were separated from the Vatican Library in the 17th century + Vatican Publishing House, the publisher of official documents of the Holy See, separated from the Vatican Library in 1926
o Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope on the Vatican Hill (sometimes referred to as the Vatican Palace) o St. Peter's Basilica, also known as the Vatican Basilica, the principal church on the Vatican Hill o Vatican MuseumsVatican may refer to:
* Holy See, the central governing body of the Catholic Church and sovereign entity recognized by international law, consisting of the Pope and the Roman Curia
o An informal term for the Catholic Church, particularly when attributing doctrine
+ Vatican Library, of the Roman Curia
* Vatican Hill, a hill in Rome, after which the Vatican is named, on the opposite side of the Tiber from the traditional seven hills of Rome
o Vatican City, the territory on the Vatican Hill in Rome under the sovereignty of the Holy See created by the 1929 Lateran Treaty
"Vatican museums" is almost an after thought.
Thanks for the advice on how and what to post, but I'll continue to use the garish popish vestments of Rome as a good example showing that the papacy 1) doesn't have its priorities straight and 2) enjoys dressing up in female attire.
The First Baptist Church if Dallas, TX and many of the mega churches have as much material wealth as the Vatican,
lolol. That is just about the funniest thing I've read in a long time. The Vatican wealth eclipses that of most countries in the world. Even after paying out billion in judgments to settle the sins of pederast priests, Rome still has billions and billions left over.
If Rome is so concerned about the plight of the poor, Rome could liquidate its jewel collections and rare books and masterpiece paintings and antique furniture and open its coffers to actually helping out the poor instead of continuing to take from them.