Pandemic: Vatican Faces Fiscal Black Hole

Church Militant ^ | April 14, 2020 | Jules Gomes

[ebb tide]

Donations sharply plummeted after news broke that only 10% of donations from Pope Francis' annual charitable appeal was actually being spent on the poor and suffering.

[ebb tide]

Ping

[brownsfan]

So many things I thought I’d never see. I never thought I’d see a time where hearing something like the Vatican going broke makes me smile. My mother was a Catholic.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

This virus brought to you by the nation which is “best implementing the social doctrine of the Church.”
-Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why is it a black hole?
Why is it not a Argentine Socialist Hole?

[Bayard]

They will sell the art of the church, the next thing you will hear is how many private museums exist in China.

Arabs will buy all the Western art and set it on fire.

Doom and gloom but thats worse case I can see atm.

[Persevero]

Well if I had billions of dollars worth of art
I might consider selling some

[BipolarBob]

Fiscal stability is not on the Popes radar. Climate Change is. Try to stay focused.

[cherry]

not a practicing Catholic but I want to be.....the Vatican going broke simply means they'll close and sell many churches without a thought....

its not "one for all"...its "all for one"...the Vatican takes...the people give....

[Romulus]

Because the concept of holding it in trust so that non-billionaires will have a chance to see it is foreign to you.

How do the poor benefit if the art vanishes into the private collections of narco traffickers and St. Peter’s is converted to a nightclub?

[trebb]

They must not be good stewards of the money they’ve raked in over the years....there’s a parable in that somewhere...

[Persevero]

How do the poor benefit? I don’t know. Maybe they can eat or have heat or get health care.

I find it outrageous that those who vow “poverty” have billions in art.

And I’m sure plenty of the pieces would end up in museums. Which have free days.

They could even sell under those conditions.

[Persevero]

As for St Peters why a nightclub? It could be turned into a museum for instance.

Or made into socialist housing since that seems to what the pope is telling us is the way to go.

[Campion]

the Vatican going broke simply means they'll close and sell many churches

The Vatican doesn't own "many churches".

[edwinland]

My grandmother used to say “It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good.”

[Campion]

I find it outrageous that those who vow “poverty” have billions in art.

They don't. The church does. Big difference.

[bboop]

Those debauched parties and the lawsuits have cost a lot - and then there’s the loss of donations in response to those things.

[SaxxonWoods]

If Nuzzi is right, the Church will certainly be in trouble soon given this interruption in income.

And Francis has his excuse for why it happened on his watch.

[shanover]

The Vatican was always on a slow death. Maybe its best days are far behind it. This pope is an idiot.

[Revel]

Considering the current Pope then I would not feel sorry for them at all.