Posted on 03/23/2023 12:31:24 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — The economically-ailing Vatican has inaugurated a 120,000-square-foot shopping mall to cater to the millions of tourists and pilgrims that visit it each year.
After eating millions of dollars in losses on bad investments and running a serious deficit for several years in a row, the Vatican has opened the “Caput Mundi” Mall a stone’s throw from Saint Peter’s Basilica as an added revenue stream to supplement its flagging finances.
The new mall boasts over 40 boutiques featuring select Italian and foreign brands and includes clothing, accessories, jewelry, toys, cosmetics, and an exclusive and innovative food hall complete with a sushi bar.
Caput Mundi is adorned with an eclectic collection of contemporary artworks, including five original pieces by gay icon Andy Warhol.
The irony of the Vatican’s first shopping mall being launched during the pontificate of Pope Francis, a caustic critic of capitalism who has called for “a poor church for the poor,” has been lost on no one.
Earlier this month, the pontiff abolished housing discounts for cardinals, bishops, and other Vatican officials, citing a need to increase “revenues from the management of real estate assets.”
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What’s next? A casino?
“Git Yer Pope Gear Here!”
I’m old enough to remember when the Vatican was just an art museum and a gay drug/sex orgy hangout.
Now, a shopping mall!!
Where is the “Indulgences Store”?
“a caustic critic of capitalism”
He’s a communist. Embracing raw capitalism to make a buck. How rich.
Wait-—wait! You know the chicoms have been bootlegging quality Italian brand stuff for a couple decades now. The commiepopester has figgered out how to milk the tourists with a whole new line of commie stuff. Who believes the Pope’s mall is filled with actual Italian stuff? Check the shipping containers out back?
“What’s next? A casino?”
Indulgences
Good point, especially with all the Chinese ties to Milan right before COVID hit.
Touche’
Oh for the love of God.
When you give up on sin, it’s kinda hard to sell indulgences.
I seem to recall a story where Jesus trashed the temple for having a bazaar inside of his father’s house.
When you give up on sin, it’s kinda hard to sell indulgences.
Waterpark coming soon…also, ATMs that dispense indulgences. Pope Francis’ hairshirt must have been woven by Brioni.
—> When you give up on sin, it’s kinda hard to sell indulgences
Get statues, vituous medals, indulgences, etc at the Vatican Mall!
12 big movie screens
40 restaurants
More likely they will be building gay bathhouses and brothels so it matches the curtains of the Vatican Snake Audience Hall.
While I agree this is a dumb idea, it is not inside of the Basilica but elsewhere within the State of Vatican City.
“When in the coffer the coin rings, out of purgatory the soul springs.”
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