[mewzilla]

Just stumbled across this, from 2015...

The German Catholic Church is richer than the Vatican

[mewzilla]

From 2017....

CHURCH AND ESTATES Religious wealth revealed as Catholic Church has assets worth almost €4 billion

[Mrs. Don-o]

Mewzilla, this is extremely significant. Remember when Pope Francis first acceded to the papacy and he scathingly criticized exactly this: hierarchs rolling in money, living like secular princes in luxury, scrambling over each other for positions of prestige, etc.? If we had known him better then, we would have realized his next step would be to embrace them with all his heart.

He almost always telegraphs his intentions by stating the exact opposite.

My stomach dropped when he announced his intention to canonize Paul VI. It means Humanae Vitae is the next thing on the chopping block.

[Mrs. Don-o]

What kind of shepherd abandons the flock at its moment of greatest peril?

What kind of "faithful believers" choose to cut and run when things feel distinctly dangerous? What kind of sons and daughters of Holy Mother the Church desert Her when the Enemy dares to attempt to rape Her? Do not leave the Church. This does not show fidelity, and I daresay it amounts to chickening out because things have turned deadly serious.

Re-dedicate yourself to your Baptismal promises ("Do yoou reject Satan?") Reclaim the power to fight back, the power to resist to the end, the graces of your Cionfirmationb.

Cut yourself off from the Church? Don't do it. The severed Hand cannot heal the Body.