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Financially-Strapped Vatican Opens Its First-Ever Shopping Mall
Breitbart ^ | March 22, 2023 | Thomas D. Williams

Posted on 03/23/2023 12:31:24 PM PDT by ebb tide

Financially-Strapped Vatican Opens Its First-Ever Shopping Mall

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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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: capitalistpope; frankenchurch; greed; isthisthebee
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To: ebb tide

Guess where checkout is. The confessional, and at which a credit card reader is provided therein. And, the more you charge, the more you are getting closer to God! And don’t forget the poor pets.


21 posted on 03/23/2023 2:04:24 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: pbear8

A city-state which covers only 109 acres. And the mall is situated on the top of a parking garage which was built with public funding.


22 posted on 03/23/2023 2:05:38 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Everything Made in Italy?


23 posted on 03/23/2023 2:08:33 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: ebb tide

What time is Bingo?


24 posted on 03/23/2023 2:12:30 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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I’m curious as to whether Bergoglio’s mall will be open on Sundays.


25 posted on 03/23/2023 2:13:34 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: D Rider
When you give up on sin, it’s kinda hard to sell indulgences.
I'm not giving up on sin, in fact I'm going all in . The scapular I bought says I will not eternal fire. I putting my faith in these two pieces of cloth connected by a string.

/sarc

26 posted on 03/23/2023 2:15:19 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: pbear8

Fair enough. Is the fake pope gonna bless Gucci loafers and Prada bags?


27 posted on 03/23/2023 2:27:51 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: ebb tide

I gotta get my bid in to paint the ceiling.


28 posted on 03/23/2023 2:31:11 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Fai Mao

Next is a place that teaches you both how to sin and to beg forgiveness.


29 posted on 03/23/2023 3:17:48 PM PDT by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: dfwgator
Where is the “Indulgences Store”?

You get those through the website now. There's an app....

< /sarc>

30 posted on 03/23/2023 3:28:48 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("He will swallow up death forever" Isaiah 25)
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To: WKUHilltopper

What time is Bingo?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BINGO! That there was a funny one!


31 posted on 03/23/2023 3:35:22 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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I’m curious as to whether Bergoglio’s mall will be open on Sundays.

Never mind. I found the answer.

Chick-Fil-A is more catholic than Bergoglio.

32 posted on 03/23/2023 3:40:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I’m curious as to whether Bergoglio’s mall will be open on Sundays.

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Open 24/7 all year round EXCEPT Kwanzaa Day and June 28.


33 posted on 03/23/2023 3:41:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Is the fake pope gonna bless Gucci loafers and Prada bags?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Of course he will because those items are as fake as he is. They’re knock-offs produced in the slums of Naples by the Camorra Mafia in the region of Campania!


34 posted on 03/23/2023 3:47:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat; Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; ...
Bergoglio's mall will even be open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

But no Triduum TLM Masses will be allowed anywhere, per the capitalist dictator pope.

35 posted on 03/23/2023 3:51:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Tacky. We left a church because they were selling banana bread to raise money. Jesus has a problem with merchandising in church. Y’think He might just stop by the Vatican Mall and start kicking over checkout counters?


36 posted on 03/23/2023 4:00:59 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: ebb tide

A great irony that the pope who hates Latin mass opens a mall with Latin name. Caput mundi? Ha, more like Spiritus Mundi.


37 posted on 03/23/2023 5:07:47 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: ebb tide
After an exhaustive search the pontiff's financial advisors found the right individual to oversee the mall project:

Father

"...a baptismal kiddie pool in the communion food court next to the all-nun Hooters."

38 posted on 03/24/2023 4:52:31 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: oldasrocks

We could call it “Mad Marty’s Eternal Security. Go forth and sin boldly!”


39 posted on 03/24/2023 7:02:40 AM PDT by Texas_Guy
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