(March 18, 2021 at 2:48 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(March 18, 2021 at 12:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: They can’t give them the gold from the Vatican because they don’t own it. They can’t let people live in the Papal palaces because they don’t own them.
But it is the same theology. The Vatican taught Jesuits theology in which slavery is a good thing. Also the Vatican is responsible for what Catholic orders do. They obviously didn't regulate Jesuits as they made money trading slaves for over a century, and Jesuits obviously also sent a good part of that money to the Vatican so that they could buy gold and build and maintain palaces.
Jesuits make up about 4% of the clergy. Vatican treasures and properties are held by the Church in toto. What you’re suggesting is the equivalent of 4% of Amazon employees sell off the distribution centres and give the money to the poor, or house the homeless at Jeff Bezos’ mansions.
Should the entire Church do more to help people? Absolutely. But the SJ doesn’t have the authority to do what you’re suggesting.
Boru
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