Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations

worlds smallest violin

Good for them, I guess?

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.

Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.

Except they have billions in stolen art and could liquidate it at any point. If not trillions, actually.

Nobody knows exactly what Vatican has but Porphyry Basin in the Vatican Museum is estimated to be worth 2$ billion alone (it was commissioned by Emperor Nero).

Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.

Good

Just pray. If your God is the creator of the universe, it's pretty likely he can handle the situation once you let him know.

Those grifters have had a good run for two millenia. As scams go, I'd say it was pretty successful - and still is, sadly.

good, time to disband that pedo-clown organisation

One the planets largest landlords going bankrupt? I imagine they can cover the spread and still dress like trans-wizards until the lord returns.

"Man who lives in a golden palace complains about money troubles. "

Are these bastards really thinking we are going to believe their mafia like enterprise is supported by charitable donations?

Well it's a good thing they have all that priceless art they can sell...

Sell your fucking chair, you clown.

disgustingly gold chair

Probably the best news I've read so far today.

a tardigrade playing a violin. the tardigrade is in grayscale, apparently having been imaged using a scanning electron microscope. there is a scale bar at the bottom right labeled 100μm. the violin is in full color and was presumably added to the image later using a digital image manipulation tool.

I'm sure if they switched from molesting kids they could make some money jerking off grown men

Irish Star is as reliable as Alex Jones.

The Catholic Church remains one of the world's wealthiest organizations.

Thoughts and prayers!

Just sell some real estate…. They’ll be fine.

What little concessions they made to progressives was far too little too late while former popes sided with child abusers and rapists.

Aww geez, our 1500 year old grift isn’t working as well as it used to, sad!

Of course people are blaming him being too accepting of trans people, his view of "let them survive but they're sinners unwelcome to the eucharist" is unfortunately far too progressive for some.

Fortunately the church of Jesus of Nazareth will prioritize profit over peace and love

Time to start selling Indulgences again.

Oh, no. Guess they'll have to sell some of those golden trinkets they have

Even if this is true, 2025 is a jubilee year. There will be so many pilgrims to the Vatican and donations would skyrocket

Good

I wish.

Doubt they’ll even have to sell a diocese.

Maybe donating and praying to your favorite imaginary sky buddy doesn't actually solve anything.

I wonder how that can be. The Catholic Church owns real estate in almost every city in Europe, usually several buildings in larger cities, often in prime locations. Especially since these properties are only a fraction of the church's financial assets, the rental income alone should be enough to finance the church for all eternity.