I wrote: “Why would a donation to a worthy cause be refused?”
You wrote: “It was sold.”
A donation is not a sale. Thanks for proving my point yet again.
“A donation is not a sale.“
More importantly, a sale is not a donation.
Your pope took a cut of the sales of indulgences to build a worldly edifice.
“Thanks for proving my point yet again.”
Sure vlad.
Please continue to measure yourself by your false standard.
A ‘donation’ solicited with falsehoods about getting time off Purgatory.
In the rest of the world, that would be called fraud.
...and yet our Nero continues to fiddle.