Maybe they can set up a loops server and just do remote mass shorts? They’ll have to jump for jebus with different dresses.
I’m sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men
And those soft ass priest hands must feel amazing. I’ll line up for one of the Father Jackoffski specials right away.
One gentleman’s latte, extra foam, please.
Maybe Elon Musk will suddenly get religion and bail them out.
Bullshit.
It could be. I haven’t heard of the Irish Star. I couldn’t decide whether it was bullshit propaganda designed to sound Pope Francis sound like a problem, bullshit propaganda designed to attract clicks and nothing else, truth presented with the goal of making Pope Francis sound like a problem, or what really happened. I decided to post it and stop worrying about it.
Being owned by Reach plc is definitely not a reassuring sign of credibility. Highlights of other news outlets they own include the Daily Star straight up inventing an interview with Dwayne Johnson in 2019, the Daily Express having such a bizarre obsession with Princess Diana that they still pt her name in the headlines about once a week to this day, and the Daily Mirror seemingly doing its “journalism” primarily by the method of hacking into celebrities’ personal voicemails throughout most of the 00s
Ummmm… Fuck them?
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Except they have billions in stolen art and could liquidate it at any point. If not trillions, actually.
Nobody knows exactly what Vatican has but Porphyry Basin in the Vatican Museum is estimated to be worth 2$ billion alone (it was commissioned by Emperor Nero).
Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.
Why would they want to end world hunger? What could motivate them to do so?
Hmm…
Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.
No they couldn’t. They’d end up making a bunch of warlords into billionaires while the regular people would go on starving. The only way to end world hunger is grassroots economic development and education (especially for women). You can’t do that by dumping billions of dollars into those countries. The problem is very tricky and the work is long and arduous.
It’s not getting to the people who need it because [CHOMP] it’s being intercepted by warlords!
Right? yanks are something else lmao
as opposed to what?
Normal people. Germans/brits/dutchies and their colonies have a tendancy to be on the wrong side of history
what? you ok?
yeah i haven’t been murdered by the CIA yet.
Unlike several socialists politicians in my country
he is right though. Don’t know why making fun of him was required to make an ass of yourself.
Their art collection is so massive, containing such crazy rare items, many cannot have a price tag as they are literally priceless. It’s impossible to calculate its value due to the extreme rarity, or because anything like it to compare it’s value to is also in the Vatican collection.
When they sell 1 priceless art item, they can sustain themselves for a year. They have hundreds of thousands of those items, if not millions.
Saying the Vatican goes bankrupt sounds like “Elon Musk struggles to pay for his groceries”.
Sounds to me their massive stream of money is declining and they want to scare people into giving them more money.
Though if the idea that high value art is actually a money laundering/moving scheme is true, this might not be the case. The idea is that no one or few people actually want to spend millions on art but pretend they do as a front to spend millions on something else.
They could probably save some money by reducing the “cover up pedophile priests” item in their budget.
The collection of the Vatican doesn’t consist of weird modern art paintings but of historical important pieces. Private art collections of Roman emperors, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, etc. Not some fake money laundering value because some Chinese tech CEO spent way too much money on it but true historic value backed by scientific research and historic manuscripts, which hold value on their own. Any museum would sell children’s organs to be able to get their hands on a single piece. I’ve been to the Vatican myself, I’ve seen one single wing of many, completely filled with the most impressive art pieces, stacked together like they don’t have enough room to store everything properly. The British museum is innocent compared to the amount of stolen priceless art pieces the Vatican has.
And they they are on the brink of bankruptcy, because “people aren’t giving them enough money anymore”… “Because of the current pope”. I guess for the first time we have a pope doing something right.
A corporation which thrives on one source of income alone: gifts. And now the infinite money stream is declining. What was it, Christians say when bad shit happens… Ah yes, I remember, “God works in mysterious ways”. Or translated for people who do not believe in imaginary friends and fairytales: shut up and deal with it.
It’s like watching the country collapse, i guess.
Yes actually.
Is the Vatican for sale?
Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.
There’s a whole crypt of nicely dressed absolutely dead people who most certainly don’t need to be wearing rubies and gold and diamonds all over their bones.
That needle must have a pretty big eye
No, just microscopic camels.
Maybe they should put their bones in a museum for profit? Come see Saint (whomever)
We do it all the time with brown peoples bones. Why not pope’s bones?
Or their huge amounts of foreign land
Like huge… tracts of land?
Too busy donating to Trump
source?
It was revealed to me in a dream
Poor you, I hope you don’t have nightmares tonight.
…?
Could this really be? After nearly two thousands years of Catholic Church they are finally brought to their knees.
Like so many altar boys.
Eh they’re quite short so there’s no need for them to kneel
Good for them, I guess?
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.
“Another coin in the coffer rings, another soul into heaven springs.”
But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it’s actually ok for rich people to exist /s
That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.
I wish they had just said, “look bro, I don’t even need an idiom. I’m just going to tell you. If you’re rich, you’re going to Hell. You can’t exploit people and hoard resources and be in God’s good graces at the same time. Just being rich means that you’re ok walking by misery and not helping. Bro, you can’t have it like that.”
You’d still have wealthy Christians being like “okay, but what did Jesus mean by this?”
You’re absolutely right haha.
“I flicked a nickel to a hobo today. Streets uh’ gode!”
It’s a mistranslation of “sturdy rope”, which indeed would not pass through the eye of a needle.
Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.
Child rape. They’re broke from paying for unimaginable amounts of child rape.
Indeed. I’m sorry if it felt like I was minimizing the damage caused.
No! Not at you! Just, in general. We should make a point of calling a spade. Euphemism is dangerous.
Naw, they just move all the assets out of the diocese and declare bankruptcy.
Thoughts and prayers.
