Just ask god for money? I mean, isn't it omnisicent and omnipotent?
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I'd say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.
But God needs more money! C'mon everybody chip in, he needs his moneeeey!
Oh, they are opting for "The Big Lie".
IIRC s friend of theirs coined the expression too!
Good for them, I guess?
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.
I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men
Irish Star is as reliable as Alex Jones.
The Catholic Church remains one of the world's wealthiest organizations.
You can have a high net worth and go through bankruptcy.
- LET
- THEM
- EAT
- CAKE
Don't just leave those laying around, something will fi-- aww damnit, too late...
This is amazing, it took me a few seconds to realize that is a very tiny violin.
It’s from an election microscope IIRC
Does it give a close look at peoples choices?
Thoughts and prayers.
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.
They can be broke or rich depending on how they feel that day. They cook the books because they're their own country. They are truly a gang operation. My guess is they want you talking about them being broke as opposed to them being caught with more priests molesting children today.
AG report details abuse allegations against 52 priests, deacons in Diocese of Lansing
Yeah the church is rich af, just sell some of your gold you fucking parasites.
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.
Well, they can always get back to selling indulgences again or take out (another) mortgage on their state in the middle of Rome when the going gets tough.
Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.
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.
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?
That needle must have a pretty big eye
Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.
Naw, they just move all the assets out of the diocese and declare bankruptcy.
good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation
I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars
One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.
Since that fable will never become reality, probably not.
Regardless they can probably sell some shit and cover their debts
They’ve been doing that. I know of quite a bit of land owned by the church that they’ve sold around me.
Have they tried NOT having Sex with Kids?
Whoa whoa let's not get carried away. That's a load bearing pillar of the church pal
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.
You know that American Catholics are like a tiny portion of the worldwide church right?
How dare the Catholic Church be a force for good!
I wish.
Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.
Bullshit.
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.
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
something about rich man in the kingdom of heaven right?
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