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Beacool

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11. The Catholic Church is the largest NGO in the world.

Reply to valerief (Reply #1)

Fri May 9, 2014, 09:48 AM

May 2014

The Vatican is mostly a museum and this Pope HAS put his money where his mouth is since his days in Buenos Aires.

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Pope demands 'legitimate redistribution' of wealth [View all] melm00se May 2014 OP

Yay! The Catholic Church is finally going to give up some of its massive, massive wealth to valerief May 2014 #1

Lead by example?? What?? rurallib May 2014 #7

I dunno. Most people would react like me--put your money where your mouth is. valerief May 2014 #9

Most people would see this 840high May 2014 #19

I don't faint at the Pope's words. NOLALady May 2014 #10

The Catholic Church is the largest NGO in the world. Beacool May 2014 #11

Most of the funds for 'Catholic Charities' in the US come from tax funds. The Vatican owns vast Bluenorthwest May 2014 #22

The Catholic Church doesn't own massive, massive wealth. pnwmom May 2014 #21

The Vatican itself does own massive wealth. Bluenorthwest May 2014 #23

Still, this is significant. The Catholic church is influential and this dents and may reverse newthinking May 2014 #30

Things may have changed since 1965, though muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #34

HA! There are so many things about this guy that I like... Firebrand Gary May 2014 #2

A reporter needs to corner Paul Ryan today and ask him his opinion on this. onehandle May 2014 #3

+1 Scuba May 2014 #5

It is my opinion that the are not really practicing Catholics. olegramps May 2014 #6

The Pope Leo XIII who died in 1903? How's that demand going? merrily May 2014 #15

I have not idea what you are trying to convey? olegramps May 2014 #36

They are practising dickthegrouch May 2014 #28

And the catholic Supreme Court Justices rurallib May 2014 #8

That's when they'll finally remember the bit about strict separation of church and state. merrily May 2014 #16

DUzy Nomination /nt dickthegrouch May 2014 #29

Pope 1, Congress 0. n/t Orsino May 2014 #4

^^^^ ^^^^ freshwest May 2014 #17

Oh no, the Pope is a Socialist!!! Beacool May 2014 #12

We're pretty good at redistributing wealth to the rich. mountain grammy May 2014 #13

A tactical alliance with the Pope (as with Paul or Cruz) on certain areas of agreement is not a bad pampango May 2014 #14

Sub-title: "American Catholics Call Pope a 'Socialist', Become Episcopalians." WinkyDink May 2014 #18

Don't governments do that now with the tax they take out of our paychecks? seveneyes May 2014 #20

To be fair, you can read this as him supporting the Piketty ideas that are doing the rounds muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #35

Meanwhile, in Uganda and Nigeria, his Bishops call for genocide of gay people. Francis says nothing. Bluenorthwest May 2014 #24

Keep talking Francis! smallcat88 May 2014 #25

I would like to see him specifically address the wealth of the Vatican in this context. cbayer May 2014 #26

DING DING DING! Cbayer, you're our grand prize winner! rocktivity May 2014 #31

He has not mentioned it, but surely someone will ask him. cbayer May 2014 #32

Notice he says REdistribute, because it didn't belong to the wealthy to begin with. factsarenotfair May 2014 #27

The rabid capitalist aren't going to put up with this IAMWE May 2014 #33