This Catholic anti-abortion organization wants you to suffer — and actually says so!

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15. The true wealth of the Roman Catholic Church is effectively beyond accounting.

Not because of it's spiritual immaterial value, but rather, the sheer bulk of its value.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/catholic_church_and_pope_francis_religious_institutions_are_exempted_from.html

You can't even account for the melt value of the works, property, monies and artifacts it possesses. Let alone the perceived value of samesaid gold and artifacts in historical and religious context.

You could auction off Crispy Crème for the book value of the company and no one would bat an eye. If you tried to do the same to the RCC, no nation on earth could afford it. We still don't even know the totality of the wealth JUST the Nazis stuffed down the church's pants as it collapsed, hoarded treasure, and escaped with Church help.

Our best window into the overall financial picture of American Catholicism comes from a 2012 investigation by the Economist, which offered a rough-and-ready estimate of $170 billion in annual spending, of which almost $150 billion is associated with church-affiliated hospitals and institutions of higher education. The operating budget for ordinary parishes, at around $11 billion a year, is a relatively small share, and Catholic Charities is a smaller share still.

Your church is a business. Period. One that operates completely free of the taxes and accounting rules that hamper even the wildly abusive corporate crony-laden capitalistic elements of our mixed market economy.

And that money spent on hospitals? Hardly charity. That's a hostile takeover of our health care system to constrain and eliminate abortion, physician assisted suicide, etc. Well documented.

http://crosscut.com/2014/01/washingtons-looming-catholic-hospital-takeover/

It's cute the way you try to paint your church as this poor, meager, frugal thing that just wardens the souls of its members, while it metastasizes into a 150-billion-dollars-a-year bid to take health care right out of our hands. We already know what the church will do with that power. We've seen it in Boston, where they abandoned adoption services altogether, rather than lose 4 million/year in state grants for delivery of social services, because your bigoted church couldn't bear the thought of administering adoptions to same-sex-couples as state law required.

You embarrass the legacy of your own avatar, sir.