Thoughts and prayers.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.
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.
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.
One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.
Since that fable will never become reality, probably not.
Regardless they can probably sell some shit and cover their debts
Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I'd say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.
good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation
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
You can say rape and abuse
Just as they can choose not to. That's the beauty of free will.
Probably the best news I've read so far today.
Time to start selling Indulgences again.
Just ask god for money? I mean, isn't it omnisicent and omnipotent?
Oh, no. Guess they'll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have
I wish.
Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.
Are you sure it's not because you've had to pay billions of dollars in settlements for priests raping children?
Are you sure that's not why?
I don’t think the victims are getting paid that much. Our society has gone from “if someone powerful did something to you then you did something wrong” to “okay maybe they were wrong for that” but we’re still a ways away from “and they should pay a real price.”
That wasn't a comment on the politics of the situation, the church just had to pay $800 million in California in restitution for their crimes. The Catholic church has spent billions of dollars settling lawsuits and criminal cases.
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Gods plan
I'm going to need a really, /really/ small violin.
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
Nawww poor little pedophiles.
- LET
- THEM
- EAT
- CAKE
I'm sure God will save them .... by wiring them a few billion dollars
Oh no...
Anyway,
how was your workday?
I work weird days, Friday-Monday, so this is like the last day of my weekend. Also my birthday! So, not too bad. How about you?
Happy birthday! Here's a celebratory cake 🎂
Good
lol
Maybe they can save some money by protecting fewer pedos?
Ummmm... Fuck them?
Thoughts and prayers.
Wait, nope, fresh out.
Nice
Pfffft... Yeah right.
It's like watching the country collapse, i guess.
I guess those tithes just aren't paying.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
Start selling off your nazi gold.
Oh no. Well anyways
And it has nothing to do with the afghan opium money they used to launder, but now no longer exists after taliban kicked the US out
Is the Vatican for sale?