“So what”
My answer was not to you but to the canard ‘ the Church should sell all its gold and give it to the poor’
How simplistic!
How minimally thought thru!
If the Church liquidated all of its wealth, a protestant dream, they may have 5 - 10 years of largess to ‘give to the poor’ then it would be dissipated.
Whereas just one segment of the the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, gives $3.69 Billion dollars (2014 data) in one year to the poor. Source CARA ibid.
AMDG
That and a subway token gets you no where
whoa again there, lurking....this is not money given by catholic charities.....the $3.69b is the value of those services.
We can go to the website and prove this....and you know I've been there.
The tax return for 2013-2014 filed by Catholic Charities, USA, form 990, reports revenue of $31,800,473. Actual contributions and grants were 25,511,072.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/261483129/Fy2014-Form-990-Ccusa
As you noted in this thread we have no idea how they valued those services or how much was contributed.
This article may be of interest to other readers. It doesn't paint this organization in a very positive light. http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7587
btw...still waiting on your answer to if you tithe, and if so, is it on the gross or the net. your silence is telling.
Maybe if the rcc taught tithing this would not be a problem.
Maybe the rcc should come clean and reveal the value of its resources.