I can ask about some protestant congregations or others where the donations are not exactly used in a proper manner fitting for a believer in Christ. Those living in glass house should not cast anything that might cause it to scratch or break. If I didn’t know better, I would think you where trying to elevate yourself up to the Statue of our Lord, i.e. free from all sin. But being the “good” Christian that you are, I know you would never do that, right? But if that is the case, then why ask the question the way you did or the others for that matter? What does it say about when your behavior in your question resembles so much the behavior of so many of today’s clergy?
By the way much of that wealth was donated(time, hard work, money) by those who believed, unless of course your suggesting the Church forced them to do so or pillaged it some how? Now if the current crop of priest cannot appreciate (and many of them don’t) that fact much like you and others on this thread, what does that say about your view of those who believed so much that they dedicated a portion sometimes there life to creating such things?
Feel free to ask about Protestant congregations. I’ve no doubt that the combined wealth of all Protestant sects is easily eclipsed by the wealth of the RCC.
And whenever we find that one of leaders lives like one of yours it is a scandal to us.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/08/us/american-archbishops-lavish-homes/