There are still starving children in the world. Is the staff the pope holds real gold? Those rings people wear in vatican city look expensive. The art work must be worth millions. Why cant they just be like good ol' mother Teresa?
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They have enough swiss bank accounts to have swiss guards.
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I don't know, but most of the people there are priests. Also, the Vatican bankrupted itself by helping WWI refugees and victims.
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The art work is priceless. The amount of money the Vatican has is astronomical. I'm not sure how they work that out spiritually...I'm sure they reason it out by saying they send people like Mother Theresa out to help these people. I personally couldn't justify it. But to stay a world power, you need to have money and influence...which they have.
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Too rich...
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Well they sure have more money than me. I agree, they are so worried about poverty in the world, yet they have all sorts of materialistic items. It seems a bit odd.
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I sort of agree BUT hey, let's face it, that saying about "give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish feed him for life" is really true. If you go pay to see the papal collection in the Vatican, they can take the profits and feed starving children. If they sell those antiquities they'll only feed so many kids for a fixed length of time.
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The Pope doesn't own that staff. No one does. And all the money that the people give on Sundays doesn't actually go to the Pope. You should really learn how the RCC works when it comes to their property.
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Do you want them to be begging for money in he streets also? I don;t get what point your trying to make, they help ou those people, but you can;t expect he pope to help them all out What about the President, George Bush, why is he living in such a big white house, when there are starving children in the US?
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Yeah all that extravagance doesn't seem to be in harmony with what Christ taught.
