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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.
1 posted on 04/14/2020 11:43:20 AM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 04/14/2020 11:43:52 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

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.


3 posted on 04/14/2020 11:48:33 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: ebb tide

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


4 posted on 04/14/2020 11:48:44 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: ebb tide

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


5 posted on 04/14/2020 11:49:05 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: ebb tide

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.


6 posted on 04/14/2020 11:49:12 AM PDT by Bayard
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Well if I had billions of dollars worth of art
I might consider selling some


7 posted on 04/14/2020 11:50:39 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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Fiscal stability is not on the Popes radar. Climate Change is. Try to stay focused.


8 posted on 04/14/2020 11:51:20 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't cough on your keyboard because everybodys virus protection may not be updated.)
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To: ebb tide

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


11 posted on 04/14/2020 11:57:59 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: ebb tide

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


17 posted on 04/14/2020 12:18:12 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: ebb tide

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.


18 posted on 04/14/2020 12:18:47 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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Considering the current Pope then I would not feel sorry for them at all.


20 posted on 04/14/2020 12:33:51 PM PDT by Revel
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This from a place that boasts in their tours they own 25% of the worlds priceless art items and jewels. Sorry not crying for them


22 posted on 04/14/2020 12:41:33 PM PDT by Mom MD
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They were billions ahead until they had to start paying out all the sex abuse claims. Can’t feel sorry for them if the cupboard’s bare.


29 posted on 04/14/2020 1:29:44 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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Bankruptcy?

Doesn’t surprise me.


47 posted on 04/15/2020 11:27:33 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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