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Pandemic: Vatican Faces Fiscal Black Hole
Church Militant ^
| April 14, 2020
| Jules Gomes
Posted on 04/14/2020 11:43:20 AM PDT by ebb tide
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Donations sharply plummeted after news broke that only 10% of donations from Pope Francis' annual charitable appeal was actually being spent on the poor and suffering.
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:43:20 AM PDT
by
ebb tide
To: Al Hitan; Coleus; DuncanWaring; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; JoeFromSidney; kalee; markomalley; ...
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:43:52 AM PDT
by
ebb tide
(We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
To: ebb tide
So many things I thought I’d never see. I never thought I’d see a time where hearing something like the Vatican going broke makes me smile. My mother was a Catholic.
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:48:33 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: ebb tide
This virus brought to you by the nation which is “best implementing the social doctrine of the Church.”
-Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
To: ebb tide
Why is it a black hole?
Why is it not a Argentine Socialist Hole?
To: ebb tide
They will sell the art of the church, the next thing you will hear is how many private museums exist in China.
Arabs will buy all the Western art and set it on fire.
Doom and gloom but thats worse case I can see atm.
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:49:12 AM PDT
by
Bayard
To: ebb tide
Well if I had billions of dollars worth of art
I might consider selling some
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:50:39 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
To: All
Fiscal stability is not on the Popes radar. Climate Change is. Try to stay focused.
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:51:20 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Don't cough on your keyboard because everybodys virus protection may not be updated.)
To: brownsfan
not a practicing Catholic but I want to be.....the Vatican going broke simply means they'll close and sell many churches without a thought....
its not "one for all"...its "all for one"...the Vatican takes...the people give....
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:52:43 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: Persevero
Because the concept of holding it in trust so that non-billionaires will have a chance to see it is foreign to you.
How do the poor benefit if the art vanishes into the private collections of narco traffickers and St. Peter’s is converted to a nightclub?
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: ebb tide
They must not be good stewards of the money they’ve raked in over the years....there’s a parable in that somewhere...
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posted on
04/14/2020 11:57:59 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: Romulus
How do the poor benefit? I dont know. Maybe they can eat or have heat or get health care.
I find it outrageous that those who vow poverty have billions in art.
And Im sure plenty of the pieces would end up in museums. Which have free days.
They could even sell under those conditions.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:04:25 PM PDT
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Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
To: Romulus
As for St Peters why a nightclub? It could be turned into a museum for instance.
Or made into socialist housing since that seems to what the pope is telling us is the way to go.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:05:57 PM PDT
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Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
To: cherry
the Vatican going broke simply means they'll close and sell many churches The Vatican doesn't own "many churches".
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:15:58 PM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: brownsfan
My grandmother used to say “It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good.”
To: Persevero
I find it outrageous that those who vow poverty have billions in art. They don't. The church does. Big difference.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:17:18 PM PDT
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Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: ebb tide
Those debauched parties and the lawsuits have cost a lot - and then there’s the loss of donations in response to those things.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:18:12 PM PDT
by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: ebb tide
If Nuzzi is right, the Church will certainly be in trouble soon given this interruption in income.
And Francis has his excuse for why it happened on his watch.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:18:47 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
To: brownsfan
The Vatican was always on a slow death. Maybe its best days are far behind it. This pope is an idiot.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: ebb tide
Considering the current Pope then I would not feel sorry for them at all.
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posted on
04/14/2020 12:33:51 PM PDT
by
Revel
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