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In reply to the discussion: A threat to the 1%? Are the attacks on the Pope Coordinated? [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)top 10 real estate owners, it owns somewhere between 15-20% of all the stocks and bonds that exist to own. The bigot 'Cardinal' Tim Dolan is the largest single owner of real estate in NYC, the RCC local holdings go in his name. Tens of millions, scores of millions are given to Peter's Pence, the name for the Pope's personal accounts, his 'mad money'. Americans alone give 60 million and up each year to that fund.
The Pope heads what is one of about a 12 organizations of that size in the world. There are many things he could do instantly to increase economic fairness, but he does not and he will not. He speaks of the poor to distract from their own status as global financial giants, just as he attacks gay people to distract from the horrible crimes against children his peers and cohort are so frequently tied up in. Dolan gave money to pay off child abusing priests, then he lied about it, and folks like the OP allow him to claim he is very moral and to attack gay people, this liar, this accomplice to child rape, this vastly wealthy man with servants and multiple homes and celebrity friends and political allies in high places.
And of course, no one who opposes the rights of vast amounts of people can be 'for the 99%' because some of that 99% are gay or use birth control. So subtract them. Francis stands for himself and his clerical peer group and their huge financial empire. To claim he is 'for the 1%' because he mutters some words between diatribes about 'the gay lobby' is really disgusting.