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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

This is amazing, it took me a few seconds to realize that is a very tiny violin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

It’s from an election microscope IIRC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago

Does it give a close look at peoples choices?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago) (1 children)

I wonder how that can be. The Catholic Church owns real estate in almost every city in Europe, usually several buildings in larger cities, often in prime locations. Especially since these properties are only a fraction of the church's financial assets, the rental income alone should be enough to finance the church for all eternity.

[–] locuester 6 points 18 minutes ago

Organizations that own that amount of stuff borrow against it to buy even more stuff and as it all goes up in value they borrow more and buy more stuff. In an endless loop. And people call crypto a scam 🤔

Owning that much in assets typically means you also have a lot of debt. Particularly with generational, wealthy, corrupt organizations.

Point being, they can be on the brink of bankruptcy even when owning half of Europe if they can’t service the debt they wound up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 minutes ago
  • LET
  • THEM
  • EAT
  • CAKE
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 minutes ago

I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men

[–] [email protected] 4 points 47 minutes ago

I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 hours ago

Thoughts and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

There's a whole crypt of nicely dressed absolutely dead people who most certainly don't need to be wearing rubies and gold and diamonds all over their bones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Maybe they should put their bones in a museum for profit? Come see Saint (whomever)

We do it all the time with brown peoples bones. Why not pope's bones?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

That needle must have a pretty big eye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Irish Star is as reliable as Alex Jones.

The Catholic Church remains one of the world's wealthiest organizations.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 hours ago

good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation

[–] BrikoX 46 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 45 minutes ago

Naw, they just move all the assets out of the diocese and declare bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Have they tried NOT having Sex with Kids?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

That part was fine. According to the article, what's causing the issue is that Pope Francis said they should help the poor and that climate change is real, and all their scattered asshole donation-makers in all corners of the world got butthurt and turned down the money faucet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

You know that American Catholics are like a tiny portion of the worldwide church right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

How dare the Catholic Church be a force for good!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Since that fable will never become reality, probably not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Regardless they can probably sell some shit and cover their debts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

They’ve been doing that. I know of quite a bit of land owned by the church that they’ve sold around me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

I wish.

Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

something about rich man in the kingdom of heaven right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It could be. I haven't heard of the Irish Star. I couldn't decide whether it was bullshit propaganda designed to sound Pope Francis sound like a problem, bullshit propaganda designed to attract clicks and nothing else, truth presented with the goal of making Pope Francis sound like a problem, or what really happened. I decided to post it and stop worrying about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Being owned by Reach plc is definitely not a reassuring sign of credibility. Highlights of other news outlets they own include the Daily Star straight up inventing an interview with Dwayne Johnson in 2019, the Daily Express having such a bizarre obsession with Princess Diana that they still pt her name in the headlines about once a week to this day, and the Daily Mirror seemingly doing its "journalism" primarily by the method of hacking into celebrities' personal voicemails throughout most of the 00s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

And it has nothing to do with the afghan opium money they used to launder, but now no longer exists after taliban kicked the US out