[Secret Agent Man]

This is not right

That money needs to be returned.

The RCC is not a small business. And this money should not be used by them to cover their sex crime debts. They cant even get parishoners to cover this stuff, but the country is supposed to?

[Zhang Fei]

[This is not right

That money needs to be returned.

The RCC is not a small business. And this money should not be used by them to cover their sex crime debts. They cant even get parishoners to cover this stuff, but the country is supposed to?]

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Contributions are running at 20% of normal levels. The Catholic Church’s wealth is estimated to be $16b, with most of it in the form of land on which the churches stand. They could probably do a sale leaseback to cover current operating costs, but this would subject churches to financial pressures such that the ones in poor areas would have to close.

[redgolum]

Depends on how it is calculated.

My Lutheran church got the funds to pay our school teachers payroll. We are putting steps in place to pay it back, but in the early “What the heck!” phase we would not have been able to pay them.

But as far as I know, the district and synod offices did not apply.