[Mrs. Don-o]

Um, if you're talking about the fabled Vatican riches...

I once researched and posted on FreeRepublic (though I can't find it now: help, anybody?) some relevant statistics on that score. The Vatican's annual budget comes to about the same amount, IIRC, as the annual budget for the Oakland, CA Transit System(?) Their accumulated wealth is mainly in the form of properties which are held in trust for members of the Church, the general public, or future generations (e.g. art works) which can not readily, or ethically, be converted into cash.

The idea that the Vatican could pay for food, housing, and educational costs for the future children of Europe is a real eye-roller.

Many European couples could fund a couple of kids on the money they spend annually on liquor, fashions, and cosmetics, or the amount they spread around as "holidaymakers" in Thailand, Nice, Languedoc, Aruba, Jamaica, Kerala, and Fiji.

[BlackElk]

I won't try to improve on each of your efforts here. Probably would be a futile exercise anyway. Let me just thank both of you for being who you are and for doing what you do here.

Mrs. D: you ought to keep the tagline: He's XVI... Made my day!