Is Pope Francis Secretly Sneaking Out Of The Vatican At Night To Give Money To The Poor?

[Heddi]

25. why did you leave out the "and art" part of it?

Because I didn't just say "billions and billions of dollars in gold."

And you know that
Yet you chose to editorialize it as if I did.

That's not being honest.

Interesting that you left that part out. I guess it wouldn't fit your agenda of implying, directly or indirectly, that anyone who ever has any criticism of the Catholic Church, The Pope, or ANYTHING to do with any of them is a bigot, a this, a that.

Save it.

But, since you asked (even though you know I'm being factual and truthful)

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/17/vatican-finances/

(This is from an article written in 1987)

"If it chose, the Vatican could easily solve its financial problems by selling some of its more than 18,000 works of art. Vatican officials bristle at the idea of parting with so much as a Grecian urn to raise cash, let alone Michelangelo's Pieta or Raphael's frescoes. ''They belong to humanity,'' says Cardinal Caprio of the Vatican's budget office. On the books, the Vatican's billions of dollars in art treasures are assigned the value of 1 lira."

The windfall went to construct buildings and to buy gold and securities. About half the Vatican's $500 million in investments generate little or no income. Some $100 million is parked in bank accounts, and the Vatican's gold hoard, bought in the 1930s at an average price of $35 an ounce, is now worth $100 million at $450 an ounce. Not a single bar of the papal bullion, which sits in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has ever been sold.
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The fact that the Vatican lists its 18,000 pieces of art by Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo to name a few at the price of "1 Euro" doesn't really mean they're worth 1 Euro.

If you are seriously arguing that 18,000 pieces of art by the world's most famous painters and sculptors isn't worth a considerable amount of money, then you are being incredibly intellectually dishonest.

And I'm assuming that you've been to The Vatican. I have. There's a shit ton of gold, silver, platinum, marble, precious and semi-precious stones there.

But eh! It's all worthless. JUST JUNK, right? WHy sell it...worthless shit from Renaissance masters.

Whatever argument you were trying to make by editorializing my actual quote isn't working, Rug.