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?
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.
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.
About 20,000 of the 70,000 pieces of art in the Vatican Museum collection are on display. How about selling some of the artworks that are not even being displayed? Maybe they could be sold with the proviso that they be made available for viewing by the public, for some minimum number of days each year. This would have more people seeing them than the zero people who see them now, while they are in storage.