(December 14, 2010 at 10:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Getting close to the jackpot!
http://apnews.excite.com/article/2010121...M0280.html
Quote:VATICAN CITY (AP) - This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall.
Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it's under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize euro23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in September. Critics say the case shows that the "Vatican Bank" has never shed its penchant for secrecy and scandal.
The Holy Roman Catholic church has been the biggest money making organisations in the history of the world, even now I bet if it was a corporation it would be far the biggest. If it were taxed as such, imagine the revenues governments would get
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