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RE: Damned Catholics
October 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm
(October 23, 2019 at 4:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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
Looking forward to seeing “fire sale at the vatican” headlines.
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 23, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Yeah, but can Catholics still remain catholic and wait for Wormwood if Vatican loses all of its money? Will Catholicism die out if Vatican goes bankrupt? Maybe they'll switch to Mel Gibson's Catholicism, they're called Sedevacantism.
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"
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 23, 2019 at 4:55 pm
(October 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Looking forward to seeing “fire sale at the vatican” headlines. The Vatican has seventeen art galleries.
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 23, 2019 at 7:30 pm
(October 23, 2019 at 4:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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
It's real hard to reform something from within. Usually it has to be from without. Like when people claim "we're doing an internal investigation", you shouldn't just accept that at face value.
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 23, 2019 at 9:30 pm
(October 23, 2019 at 4:55 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (October 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Looking forward to seeing “fire sale at the vatican” headlines. The Vatican has seventeen art galleries.
That's right, and it would warm the cockles of my cold mammalian heart to see them have to auction all that art off to pay their way out of the hole they've dug for themselves...and not succeed in getting out of said hole. 
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 24, 2019 at 9:55 pm
Investigation finds Colorado Catholic priests allegedly abused at least 166 children over decades
The report found that the majority of the incidents took place in the 1960s and the 1970s. The most recent allegations in the document involve a Denver priest who was accused in 1998 of sexually abusing four children, according to CNN.
Forty-three priests in total are accused of sexually abusing children, according to a Denver CBS affiliate.
"This is a dark and painful history," Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told reporters, according to CNN. "The culture going back decades was one where there was a reluctance to acknowledge and address wrongdoing."
One of the priests accused in the report, Father Harold Robert White, allegedly abused at least 63 children over 21 years. He is called the "most prolific known clergy child sex abuser in Colorado history."
White served in six parishes beginning in 1960, until he was removed from the ministry in 1993. He was never placed on any restrictions, and he never underwent an investigation or received a psychiatric evaluation.
"When he had sexually abused enough children at a parish that scandal threatened to erupt, the Denver Archdiocese moved him to a new one geographically distant enough that White was not known there," the report states, CNN reported.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...dly-abused
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"
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 29, 2019 at 3:20 pm
Quote:Catholic priest in South Carolina refused to allow Biden to eat Jesus, citing his support for abortion
The Rev. Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church told a local newspaper that Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, attended his church’s 9 a.m. Mass. Morey said he denied Biden Communion because of the candidate’s political stance on abortion.
“Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that,” Morey said in a statement to the Morning News. “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/...-abortion/
Oh, well, that's what happens when politicians try to appease christian leaders: they allow them to rape children, free them of taxes, but they still want MORE.
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"
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 30, 2019 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2019 at 10:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The Rev Robert E Morey feels that it's his job to decide who gets eternal life, it seems.
As something a charlatan in a dress does, it's petty and stupid. As something a true believer does......it's evil.
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 30, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Oldie but a goodie:
How does the Vatican separate the men from the boys?
With a crowbar.
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RE: Damned Catholics
October 31, 2019 at 9:44 am
(October 30, 2019 at 12:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oldie but a goodie:
How does the Vatican separate the men from the boys?
With a crowbar.
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