My original answer was not to you but to the canard ‘ the Church should sell all its gold and give it to the poor’
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
362 posted on April 26, 2015 at 2:14:16 PM CDT by LurkingSince’98 (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)