There is you go again with your pedophile stuff. We are not taking about the lives of individuals, we are speaking about dogma. The ONE truth and the ONE Church. You know well of Lutheran pastors who have been charged with murder, adultery etc.. We here are not ready the cast these first stones. The sophomoric renditions of scripture will continue and and like others before it will fade away: to each his own from the Sharptons, Moonies, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Billy Grahams, Rev. Schullers etc while they all build a sizable family inheritance.
your church, your problem. just keep sweeping it under the rug though.
Man, this level of hypocrisy would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Our best window into the overall financial picture of American Catholicism comes from a 2012 investigation by the Economist, which offered a rough-and-ready estimate of $170 billion in annual spending, of which almost $150 billion is associated with church-affiliated hospitals and institutions of higher education. The operating budget for ordinary parishes, at around $11 billion a year, is a relatively small share, and Catholic Charities is a smaller share still. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/catholic_church_and_pope_francis_religious_institutions_are_exempted_from.html
And that's just in America.
No one really knows how much money the Vatican controls as they will not say. That's one of the hallmarks of a cult....keep the money secret.
The church I attend has a published budget for all the members to see. Nothing to hide.
I call upon the catholic church to give a full disclosure of its finances.