Vatican cash crisis: Sex abuse scandals are 'driving away donations and have lost the Holy See €44m in a year'
The Vatican is rapidly losing money with donations plummeting as sex abuse scandals damage the Catholic Church's reputation, according to a new book.
Total donations dropped from more than €100million in 2016 to a mere €60million in the most recent figures, according to Nuzzi's research.
Vatican bosses encourage worshippers to donate to the collection, known as Peter's Pence, in order to 'participate in the Pope's activity'.
However, most of the donations are now used to cover the Vatican's general costs rather than for philanthropic work, it is claimed.
Francis, who was elected to the papacy in 2013, tried to reform Vatican finances by naming Australian cardinal George Pell as Vatican economy minister.
But Pell has since been disgraced in a child sex abuse case back in Australia and insiders believe reforms are being 'sabotaged'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ummet.html
The Vatican is rapidly losing money with donations plummeting as sex abuse scandals damage the Catholic Church's reputation, according to a new book.
Total donations dropped from more than €100million in 2016 to a mere €60million in the most recent figures, according to Nuzzi's research.
Vatican bosses encourage worshippers to donate to the collection, known as Peter's Pence, in order to 'participate in the Pope's activity'.
However, most of the donations are now used to cover the Vatican's general costs rather than for philanthropic work, it is claimed.
Francis, who was elected to the papacy in 2013, tried to reform Vatican finances by naming Australian cardinal George Pell as Vatican economy minister.
But Pell has since been disgraced in a child sex abuse case back in Australia and insiders believe reforms are being 'sabotaged'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ummet.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"