The Catholic Church has no wealth to give away
As has been revealed over the past decades of scandals, the Vatican Bank is largely a black hole. The idea that the Catholic Churchwhich already staffs and finances more hospitals, hospices, schools, colleges, soup kitchens, and so on than any other entity in the worldcould make a dent in world poverty by selling any of its tangible goods is silly.
Poverty is caused by behavior, not a lack of cash. That's why expropriating funds from anyone by force to transfer them to the poor does no good. And that, by the way, is why I am careful to note that Papal pronouncements calling for governments to redistribute citizens' wealth are not, and can never be de fide or necessary to believe in order to remain a Catholic in good standing.
I also rarely consult Papal encyclicals for baseball statistics. But on the nature of God and man, the moral law, and the salvation of my soul, there's no competition.
“one of the privileged few who know what goes on in the Vatican bank”
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Speaking of the Vatican Bank, care to guess who owns Argentina’s banks? Hint: They speak Italian as their primary language.
A cynical person might believe that Pope Francis the talking Marxist Mule was put into the Vatican on behalf of financial interests that couldn’t get what they wanted from his predecessor.