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.
Isn't Ratzinger like "order of the clam" or something? Now that is just weird
Looking at matters objectively, the Vatican is not much more extensive than the holdings of the First Baptist Church in down town Dallas. Add up the personal holdings of its members and you have several billion dollars. You have a bourgeois prejudice against the Renaissance decor and trappings on display at the Vatican. But I will agree to let the clergy there to make a bondfire of them said garments if all the preachers at the First Baptist Church agree to imitate St. Francis and strip naked in front of their congregation, and walk out naked onto the streets and join the homeless sleeping—voluntarily under I-45. and depend on panhandlng for their daily bread. Or to put the matter another way, imitate Our Lord who pretty much did the same thing. Or to take to the road liked St. Paul did and risk everything in order to bring the Gospel to the World.