Spiritual riches have no cash value. The Holy See gets by on a very tight budget, if you care to know the truth.
most of the ‘wealth’ is in art and buildings that don’t have
a ready market. they’ll never sell the Sistine Chapel.
they might make money by making their secret archives available to researchers though.
>> The Holy See gets by on a very tight budget
Yes, I’m sure various accounting tricks are used to make the budget seem tight for that “department”.
You and I both know how much wealth is stored up in the catholic church though. To pretend otherwise is highly disingenuous.
You are correct. A majority of the Church’s material wealth is the priceless art and artifacts in their possession. The Church is going cash broke just like the rest of us..
“The Holy See gets by on a very tight budget, if you care to know the truth.”
You can have a tight budget and still have immense wealth. The two things are not necessarily related. If you want to convince people that the Vatican is poor, you’ll need to do a lot better than that. They own 15% of the stocks on just the Italian stock market alone.