[Mrs. Don-o]

Very good. Sell all those multi-million-dollar hospitals and do something for the sick for a change!

Auction off ancient, consecrated church buildings --- to whom, a Saudi prince? --- so you can give the money to the zingari of Rome, and the Saudis can install minarets on a whitewashed Santa Maria de Trastevere?

Sell the land on which Vatican City sits --- an area smaller that NYC's Central Park --- and relocate the offices to, oh, I don't know, Lampedusa?

Tell me your proposals, please.

[haffast]

"Sell the land on which Vatican City sits --- an area smaller that NYC's Central Park --- and relocate the offices to, oh, I don't know, Lampedusa?"

Lampedusa? That would be great! The pope could hang out with his brothers and work on his theology of Islam - Lite.

[bunkerhill7]

Sell off the art collection in the vatican and all the gold decorating the churches, especially in Spain, is enough ..

- The Northen California Catholic Hosital Building Fund has 3 billion dollar$ in its coffers since the 1980`s-

It never goes down-

They use the interest for building catholic hosptitals in northern California-

There hasn`t been a new catholic hospital built in Northern California since 1970.

I spoke with the head of the organization in the 1990`s.

Big money and church hospitals do not mix well at all. When Providence hospital needed money they were merged with a private hospital; they didn`t get a cent from this "fund:

There are crooks everywhere in the church.

When Our Lady of Angels Hospital needed money, same story- not a cent from this "fund"

I was the liason person for the Northern California Asian Catholic Community to the Chancery of the Oakland Diocese.