I’m going to need a really, /really/ small violin.
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.
Their art collection is so massive, containing such crazy rare items, many cannot have a price tag as they are literally priceless. It’s impossible to calculate its value due to the extreme rarity, or because anything like it to compare it’s value to is also in the Vatican collection.
When they sell 1 priceless art item, they can sustain themselves for a year. They have hundreds of thousands of those items, if not millions.
Saying the Vatican goes bankrupt sounds like “Elon Musk struggles to pay for his groceries”.
Sounds to me their massive stream of money is declining and they want to scare people into giving them more money.
Though if the idea that high value art is actually a money laundering/moving scheme is true, this might not be the case. The idea is that no one or few people actually want to spend millions on art but pretend they do as a front to spend millions on something else.
They could probably save some money by reducing the “cover up pedophile priests” item in their budget.
Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.
No they couldn’t. They’d end up making a bunch of warlords into billionaires while the regular people would go on starving. The only way to end world hunger is grassroots economic development and education (especially for women). You can’t do that by dumping billions of dollars into those countries. The problem is very tricky and the work is long and arduous.
It’s not getting to the people who need it because [CHOMP] it’s being intercepted by warlords!
he is right though. Don’t know why making fun of him was required to make an ass of yourself.
Right? yanks are something else lmao
as opposed to what?
Why would they want to end world hunger? What could motivate them to do so?
Hmm…
Maybe they can save some money by protecting fewer pedos?
I’d suggest trying to have fewer pedos in the first place.
Sell your fucking chair, you clown.
Pope Francis got rid of that already, some 10 years ago.
I haven’t seen him on that chair since, but I’m sure it’s somewhere collecting dust.
Not sitting on it =/= getting rid of it
Sad. It would look so stylish in my living room
Thoughts and prayers!
Can all the nations they stole artifacts and trinkets from get them back when they declare bankruptcy? /s
Why is there a sarcasm? It’s a legit question.
It’s probably asked sarcastically because they know it would never happen.
Correct!
Too busy donating to Trump
source?
It was revealed to me in a dream
Poor you, I hope you don’t have nightmares tonight.
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Somebody should lunch an indulgence-based cryptocoin. Buy your way to paradise today!
They used to have a marketing jingle for their old indulgences… whenever a coin in the box rings, a soul in purgatory springs!
No fucking joke. This was actually one reason why protestantism rose.
Pope to Vatican: How does one “chain the blocks”?
Aww geez, our 1500 year old grift isn’t working as well as it used to, sad!
Isn’t it more like around 2025 year old?
Looks like indulgences are back on the menu, boys!
Oh no…
Anyway,
how was your workday?
I work weird days, Friday-Monday, so this is like the last day of my weekend. Also my birthday! So, not too bad. How about you?
Happy birthday! Here’s a celebratory cake 🎂
Gods plan
