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PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to Global News@lemmy.zip · 2年前

Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations

www.irishstar.com

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Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations

www.irishstar.com

PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to Global News@lemmy.zip · 2年前
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The Vatican has found itself in the middle of a critical financial crisis, which threatens to jeopardize the livelihood of retired clergy and staff worldwide
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  • Iapar ( Iapar@feddit.org ) 
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    Thoughts and prayers.

  • HootinNHollerin ( HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    worlds smallest violin

  • BrikoX ( BrikoX@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.

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    Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.

    Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.

    • blindsight ( blindsight@beehaw.org ) 
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      Bankruptcy seems like a stretch, indeed. But those assets are largely not income generating, aside from donations and tourism. With those on the decline, their value situation is worsening.

      Hopefully, they’ll be forced to sell their “priceless” artifacts until there’s nothing left.

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  • HowAbt2morrow ( HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ) 
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    One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.

    • SanctimoniousApe ( SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ) 
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      Since that fable will never become reality, probably not.

      • Lodespawn ( Lodespawn@aussie.zone ) 
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        Regardless they can probably sell some shit and cover their debts

  • anuwubis ( morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation

  • ExtremeDullard ( ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I’d say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.

  • Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ) 
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    a tardigrade playing a violin. the tardigrade is in grayscale, apparently having been imaged using a scanning electron microscope. there is a scale bar at the bottom right labeled 100μm. the violin is in full color and was presumably added to the image later using a digital image manipulation tool.

  • beefbot ( beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Anyone think this is some independently verified fact?

    THEY’RE CLAIMING THIS TO GET OUT OF PAYING ALL THE LAWSUITS they get because of all the r4pe & 4bus3 of little children

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      You can say rape and abuse

      • Robust Mirror ( Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ) 
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        Just as they can choose not to. That’s the beauty of free will.

  • some_guy ( some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    Probably the best news I’ve read so far today.

  • Clent ( Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    Time to start selling Indulgences again.

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    deleted by creator

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    Oh, no. Guess they’ll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have

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