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TheDebbieDee

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3. Hard times? or the Catholic Church? An organization whose walls are lines with priceless

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 08:09 PM

Apr 2013

objects of art? An organization that spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the centuries buying the silence (or paying the fees for) of rape victims?

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Pope Francis likely to cut staff bonus, citing hard times [View all] onehandle Apr 2013 OP

Sell all that you have and give it to the poor broadcaster75201 Apr 2013 #1

America first. onehandle Apr 2013 #2

Pope John Paul I, when he was still an archbishop, Ken Burch Apr 2013 #5

At a certain level they do seem to have forgotten all that - LiberalElite Apr 2013 #8

Hard times? or the Catholic Church? An organization whose walls are lines with priceless TheDebbieDee Apr 2013 #3

If his staff is mainly celibate priests, why would I care? I would fear for the lesser staff CTyankee Apr 2013 #4

He could start selling indulgences again... Ken Burch Apr 2013 #6

how about paying some damages to all those victims of your pedophile priests? hmmmm ncteechur Apr 2013 #7

Hard times, my teeny weeny papal beany... Proletariatprincess Apr 2013 #9

That will go over defacto7 Apr 2013 #10

Pope Austerity? davidpdx Apr 2013 #11