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To: NYer

What’s this “cult of money” he’s talking about?

Let’s look at the accumulated wealth of the Roman Catholic Church and ask “who has a balance sheet that looks as nice and plump as the Vatican’s?” before we start babbling about a “cult of money.”


5 posted on 05/16/2013 4:04:28 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave
Some perspective: Harvard’s Budget Ten Times that of Vatican
7 posted on 05/16/2013 4:07:46 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: NVDave
Let’s look at the accumulated wealth of the Roman Catholic Church and ask “who has a balance sheet that looks as nice and plump as the Vatican’s?” before we start babbling about a “cult of money.”

You know that legal truism about asking questions that you don't know the answer to?

The Vatican's assets are worth about $1 billion. It's administrative staff is smaller than the University of Notre Dame.

And they serve over 1 billion Catholics. I would call that the principle of subsidiarity in action.

16 posted on 05/16/2013 4:57:14 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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