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Lint Head

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51. 500 billion dollars will go a long way.

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 02:58 PM

Dec 2013

422 billion in 2001.

http://what-is-the-catholic-church-worth.app-just-trying-to-help-1.aidpage.com/

"In conclusion, permit me to underline that from 1993 to 2000 all the consolidated financial statements of the Holy See have closed in the black. This has been made possible not only by a vigilant control of costs but above all by the ever greater sum that comes to us from Bishops, Religious, Foundations, Associations, Catholic entities, and the faithful, on behalf of whom I ask you to convey my most lively gratitude, together with the following consideration: economic autonomy is for the Church the best guarantee of liberty in her mission of evangelization without dependence upon the powerful of this world; it is for this that the Holy See is not ashamed extend her hand, because it is the poor and not the rich who enjoy this auto-sufficiency."

[Text from Vatican]
(July 06, 2001) © Innovative Media Inc.

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/economic-report-of-the-holy-see-for-2000

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Careful, don't trip over the irony in that statement. rug Dec 2013 #20

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You're whine is noted. cleanhippie Dec 2013 #49

As is your poor grammar Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2013 #50

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500 billion dollars will go a long way. Lint Head Dec 2013 #51

Not really. By comparison, the U.S. Defense budget was $683 billion. rug Dec 2013 #52

But that's for killing people. Lint Head Dec 2013 #55

Yeah. Who's the worse criminal? rug Dec 2013 #56

Zackly! Lint Head Dec 2013 #57