Even if this is true, 2025 is a jubilee year. There will be so many pilgrims to the Vatican and donations would skyrocket
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Probably the best news I've read so far today.
Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.
Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.
Good
Are these bastards really thinking we are going to believe their mafia like enterprise is supported by charitable donations?
Thoughts and prayers.
Wait, nope, fresh out.
Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I'd say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.
Good for them, I guess?
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it's actually ok for rich people to exist /s
That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.
It's a mistranslation of "sturdy rope", which indeed would not pass through the eye of a needle.
I wish they had just said, “look bro, I don’t even need an idiom. I’m just going to tell you. If you’re rich, you’re going to Hell. You can’t exploit people and hoard resources and be in God’s good graces at the same time. Just being rich means that you’re ok walking by misery and not helping. Bro, you can’t have it like that.”
You'd still have wealthy Christians being like "okay, but what did Jesus mean by this?"
You’re absolutely right haha.
“I flicked a nickel to a hobo today. Streets uh’ gode!”
I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.
lol
They might need to auction off one of those reptilian skeletons they have in the secret basement.
Oh, no. Guess they'll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have
Just ask god for money? I mean, isn't it omnisicent and omnipotent?
Thoughts and prayers.
Don't just leave those laying around, something will fi-- aww damnit, too late...
It’s cool, he ain’t playing it right anyway. He won’t get famous and change the world the way he’s doing it.
Oh shiiiiiii
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Maybe they can set up a loops server and just do remote mass shorts? They'll have to jump for jebus with different dresses.
Bootstraps bitches. Pull em up!
Nawww poor little pedophiles.
I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men
And those soft ass priest hands must feel amazing. I’ll line up for one of the Father Jackoffski specials right away.
Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.
Or their huge amounts of foreign land
There's a whole crypt of nicely dressed absolutely dead people who most certainly don't need to be wearing rubies and gold and diamonds all over their bones.
That needle must have a pretty big eye
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Irish Star is as reliable as Alex Jones.
The Catholic Church remains one of the world's wealthiest organizations.
You can have a high net worth and go through bankruptcy.
The number of people who don't understand the difference between cash flow and assets astounds me.
Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.
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- LET
- THEM
- EAT
- CAKE
good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation
One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.
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I wonder how that can be. The Catholic Church owns real estate in almost every city in Europe, usually several buildings in larger cities, often in prime locations. Especially since these properties are only a fraction of the church's financial assets, the rental income alone should be enough to finance the church for all eternity.
Organizations that own that amount of stuff borrow against it to buy even more stuff and as it all goes up in value they borrow more and buy more stuff. In an endless loop. And people call crypto a scam 🤔
Owning that much in assets typically means you also have a lot of debt. Particularly with generational, wealthy, corrupt organizations.
Point being, they can be on the brink of bankruptcy even when owning half of Europe if they can’t service the debt they wound up.
If there are physical assets to back up the loans, doesn't that make it less of a scam than crypto.
Maybe not a good business strategy, and maybe the loans outweigh the "true" value of the assets, but there is something backing it.
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They can be broke or rich depending on how they feel that day. They cook the books because they're their own country. They are truly a gang operation. My guess is they want you talking about them being broke as opposed to them being caught with more priests molesting children today.
AG report details abuse allegations against 52 priests, deacons in Diocese of Lansing
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Pfffft... Yeah right.
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