In 2005, a judge ordered the Catholic Church to raise $25 million to pay victims from church ran schools. In 2015, the church told the judge they could only raise about $4 million.
But then, between 2005 and 2015, the church managed to raise $300 million for cathedral renovations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon...-1.6090650
But then, between 2005 and 2015, the church managed to raise $300 million for cathedral renovations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon...-1.6090650
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"