Are these bastards really thinking we are going to believe their mafia like enterprise is supported by charitable donations?
Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.
Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.
lol
They might need to auction off one of those reptilian skeletons they have in the secret basement.
Bootstraps bitches. Pull em up!
Oh, no. Guess they'll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have
Nawww poor little pedophiles.
Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I'd say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.
Just ask god for money? I mean, isn't it omnisicent and omnipotent?
Pfffft... Yeah right.
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.”
But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it's actually ok for rich people to exist /s
That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.
I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.
But God needs more money! C'mon everybody chip in, he needs his moneeeey!
I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men
Oh, they are opting for "The Big Lie".
IIRC s friend of theirs coined the expression too!
Don't just leave those laying around, something will fi-- aww damnit, too late...
Oh shiiiiiii
This is amazing, it took me a few seconds to realize that is a very tiny violin.
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.
Thoughts and prayers.
Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.
Or their huge amounts of foreign land
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.
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.
good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation
One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.
Have they tried NOT having Sex with Kids?
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!
Whoa whoa let's not get carried away. That's a load bearing pillar of the church pal
I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars
I wish.
Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.
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